TY - JOUR
AU - Lavach, John F.
AB -  JOHNF. LAVACH College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Several investigations have examined the Thomas investigated the teaching of an potentiality of using historically oriented earth science unit through historical case science teaching materials at the elemen- studies to noncollege preparatory, low tary, secondary, and college levels. Scien- achievement, low interest junior high school tists; educators: and historians have all students. I n both studies, the results indivoiced an opinion that an historically ori- cate that exposure to an historically oriented science program might be the answer ented program can lead to significant gains to the growing concern of the scientist and in understanding science without loss in humanist alike: i.e., the apparent lack of content achievement as measured by test understanding and the distorted view of performance. The instrument typically science on the part of the general adult used as a criterion measure is the Test O n population, as well as among elementary, Understanding Science, which provides scores along three dimensions: ( 1 ) the scisecondary, and college level students. Since J. B. Conant4 first proposed the entific enterprise, ( 2 ) scientists, and (3) the Harvard Case Studies in 1947 for use a t methods 
TI - Organization and evaluation of an in‐service program in the history of science
JF - Journal of Research in Science Teaching
DO - 10.1002/tea.3660060211
DA - 1969-06-01
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SP - 166
EP - 170
VL - 6
IS - 2
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