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- Title
THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE AND APPLY SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES IN NEW SITUATIONS.
- Authors
Owens, J. Harold
- Abstract
This article presents an experimental investigation in high school biology and chemistry teaching in the U.S. This educational experiment's purpose is two-fold. (1) To study the relationship between the ability of high-school pupils to recognize scientific principles in test situations and the ability to apply these principles to problematic situations, and (2) to study the effects of directed teaching on the ability of these pupils to apply scientific principles to new situations, not previously employed in the teaching of the understanding of the principle. The place of this investigation was the Greenwich High School, a public high school in Greenwich, Connecticut. The subjects used in this study were 296 high-school students. One hundred eighty of these students were engaged in the study of tenth-grade biology and 116 in the study of high school chemistry.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; BIOLOGY education; CHEMISTRY education; SECONDARY education; HIGH schools; PUBLIC schools; EDUCATION research; COMPARATIVE education; EXPERIMENTAL methods in education; EDUCATIONAL surveys; CURRICULUM research; SECONDARY education research
- Publication
Science Education, 1951, Vol 35, Issue 4, p207
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730350411