This report deals with the developmental history of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). Description of the project and its origins as well as summative evaluation are briefly discussed. Diffusion of the project and subsequent adoption are also treated and its future potential evaluated. (CP)

This report deals with the developmental history of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). Description of the project and its origins as well as summative evaluation are briefly discussed. Diffusion of the project and subsequent adoption are treated and its future potential evaluated. (CP)

This report is the thirteenth of twenty-one reports dealing with the developmental history of a recent educational product: the Holt Social Studies Curriculum directed by Dr. Edwin Fenton. This series of courses stresses an inquiry approach to the study of history and the social sciences, specifically economic and political systems, world history,…