This investigation was designed to measure certain visually
perceived nonverbal behaviors of teachers in an effort to learn the
relationships between these behaviors and the affective responses of
students to the teachers, To this end, teachers were videotaped, and
the tapes were shown to students for their affective responses.
Thirty...
The purposes of this study were threefold: (1) to formulate a
current list of biological principles to use as a checklist in this study;
(2) to utilize the formulated checklist in identifying those principles
required for reading comprehension of news articles concerning the
various areas of biology or biology-related social...
The major purpose of the study was to determine whether
science process achievement tests could be developed for administration
to groups of primary grade students. Six Basic Science Process
Tests (BSPT) were constructed as samples of the format proposed.
Each BSPT was designed to assess one of the basic science...
This study was designed to reveal the outcomes of participation
in science project activities such as Science Fair projects among
ninth grade science students in Multnomah County, Oregon, during
the second half of the 1963-1964 school year.
A stratified sample of five public schools was selected to participate in this...
This investigation was designed to analyze change in critical .
thinking between students in laboratory-centered and lecture-demonstration-centered patterns of instruction in high school biology.
Twenty biology classes were randomly selected from the four
senior high schools in the Salt Lake City School District. Class enrollment
ranged from nine students in...