TY - JOUR
AU - Welch, Wayne W.
AB -  WAYNE WELCH W. Universitp of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota The latest U. S. Office of Education estimate (1964-65) places the number of students taking an introductory physics course in a public high school at 485,000.1 This figure is about 20% of the total number of students enrolled in the 12th grade? There is considerable interest in these half million students. From their ranks will come our future physicists and engineers. And from their ranks comes that segment of our population that possesses a knowledge of physics and its role in society. Because of the need for adequate training for both future scientists and knowledgeable laymen, curriculum groups have invested hundreds of man-years and millions of dollars to improve the quality of physics instruction in secondary schools. Despite the investment of talent and money so far, there is still justifiable concern about the high school physics situation. In 1960, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) published a booklet entitled Phpsics in Your High School. It was designed as a guide for the improvement of physics courses. In the booklet, a goal for increasing physics enrollments was proposed in these terms: “In the next five years the proportion of physics students 
TI - Some characteristics of high school physics students: Circa 1968
JF - Journal of Research in Science Teaching
DO - 10.1002/tea.3660060308
DA - 1969-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/some-characteristics-of-high-school-physics-students-circa-1968-PnhDqn0BEf
SP - 242
EP - 247
VL - 6
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -