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Peer reviewedWoodman, Charles A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1972
Students whose Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) physics course was supplemented with the PSSC films did not achieve significantly higher scores on the PSSC Achievement Test or the Test on Understanding Science than students who did not see the films, when intelligence and science background were used as covariates. (AL)
Descriptors: Achievement, Instruction, Instructional Films, Physics
Peer reviewedPeterson, Kenneth D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1978
Fifty-nine secondary school physics students were assigned to treatment groups: (1) Project Physics units, (2) Project Physics and verbal learning unit, and (3) a training program in scientific inquiry. Posttest results revealed that, on most aspects of a science inquiry test, treatments 2 and 3 had significantly greater effect on achievement than…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Inquiry, Instruction, Physics
