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...
It was the intent of this investigation to compare the performance
of community college students to four-year institutional students, both
of whom were enrolled in a college general biology program (GS 101,
102, 103) during the 1967-68 academic year. During the week of
May 27, 1968 measurements were taken of...
The purpose of this study was to investigate several hypotheses concerning specific demonstrable attitudes toward education, critical thinking ability, and affective behaviors as these were manifested by students in the BSCS environmental module, Investigating Your Environment (IYE), and in more structure-oriented biology classes. Participants in the study were students in...
