Probes student views about knowing and learning physics with the Views About Science Survey (VASS). Employs six conceptual dimensions classified into the four distinct profiles of expert, high transitional, low transitional, and folk. Contains 42 references. (DDR)

Reports on the development of a laboratory exercise that would allow students to explore the concept of genetic drift. Discusses the concept of genetic drift that is coincident with natural selection and that closely models the real world. (DDR)

Reviews scholarship in science and technology studies and discusses associated curricular implications in terms of educational aims, learning experiences, and resources. Propounds a view of scientific literacy as preparation for competent participation in the scientific arena. (Author/SLD)

Describes a two-year program using the characteristics of ecology as a framework for inquiry and learning. Discusses the framework as a model for the biological, social, political, historical, and cultural systems that make up the content of the grade 9-10 curriculum. (CCM)

This study with 111 high achieving students (ages 9 to 13) found significant correlations between the number of science courses selected and science-related attitudes, specifically enjoyment of science lessons, leisure interest in science, and career interest in science. Science-related attitudes were more important predictors of course selection…

Western educators are forgetting the need to impart knowledge about modern warfare's consequences. Science texts contain little about radiation damage. The nuclear bomb's destructiveness to humans and the biosphere should be a teacher responsibility in several curriculum areas. "War is hell" should be educators' main message. (Contains…

Analyzes changes and developments in the primary science curriculum in Botswana from 1969-1989. Discusses the objectives, basic concepts, and reasons for change during three time periods: 1969-1982, 1982-1989, and 1989-present. Identifies discovery teaching as the recommended method of instruction. (Contains 17 references.) (Author/YDS)

Argues for including several key ideas in every introductory general chemistry course, including the phenomena of chemistry, the organization and classification of matter, atomic structure, molecular bonding and molecular structure, the language of chemistry, the mole, chemical reactions and reactivity, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, and…

Compares "being Muslim" in Turkey with other Islamic countries and describes the regime changes of the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. Explains evolution in Islamic understanding and discusses creationism's effects and evolution's place in the high school biology curriculum. Defines the Science Research Foundation's (BAV) and…

Describes a course that focuses on the practice of science as it is done by professionals in specific disciplines and offers opportunities to communicate the connections and relationships among the scientific disciplines. (DDR)

Explores the use of a constructivist approach to enable students to examine what causes the seasons. Describes an activity based on a multiple choice question and includes a summary organized using a learning cycle. (DDR)

Summarizes the process of a reform effort in biology instruction. Describes the use of a case study about cholera epidemics and explains how it enables critical objectives in the science curriculum to be addressed. (DDR)

Considers questions related to the scientific community's understanding of evolution compared to that of science teachers and whether there is a difference between the way elementary and secondary teachers view evolution. (DDR)

Proposes some benefits of incorporating more plant science into a science curriculum. One prime benefit would include the conveyance of general experience in scientific research skills. Also provides an overview of resources and tactics available to teachers and students. (AIM)

Reports on a preliminary project that uses a phenomenographic approach to explore the ways in which a small number of fundamental ideas are conceptualized by students who are judged to have mastered quantum mechanics material. (DDR)