Arnold B. Arons caused a paradigm shift in the way science education is performed at the
postsecondary level. He realized that his “lucid lectures and demonstrations were depositing …

MY PRESENT CONCERN WITH UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE EDUCATION BEGAN IN
THE early Fall of 1980 when, being assigned by happenstance to teach a physics class for …

The United States soon faces an apparent shortfall ofscience workers running into the
hundreds ofthousands. Science educators, in response, propose major reforms at the …

In a clear, nontechnical account, Jack Goldstein tells the story of this entrepreneurial
American scientist who played an essential part in experiments important to the …

Effective science teaching is a topic of concern to many science educators. Throughout its
six chapters, this book provides research findings of the effectiveness of science teachers in …

Many able students are deterred from science because of the way science courses are
packaged. To find out what makes science hard for otherwise intelligent students, the author …

In her recent study of college science instruction, Sheila Tobias [19] defines two tiers of
entering college students, the first consisting of those who go on to earn science degrees …

This book explains why so few efforts at reforming science education are successful, and
why it is that the 300 studies on the subject published over the past decade have done little …

What should all students know about the physical sciences? Why should all students have a
basic understanding of these ideas? An amazing number of new scientific breakthroughs …

Remember the inevitable danger of lectures. A preacher is supposed to be a teacher, but
sermons are proverbially narcotic.... Above all things let your method be such as to compel …