The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of
a six week residential summer program of differential education for
gifted high school students. It was designed to determine the extent
to which participants in the program were proficient in aspects of
critical and creative thinking, and in the...
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...
This study was designed to evaluate the relative effectiveness
of a new college general biology course which utilized an audio -
tutorial laboratory as contrasted with a traditional lecture course.
Five biology classes with 720 students at the Kansas State
Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas, participated in the study.
The...