Science interests and activities of adolescents

A Study of the Biological Preferences of Secondary School Pupils in Israel

“…Nettels (1931) testing more than 1000 7th-9th grade pupils, found the domin ant interest of boys to be (in this order) : chemis try, astronomy, animals, aviation, electricity, and of girls : astronomy, animals, plants, chemis try. Zim (1940) concluded, that boys were more interested in electricity and mechanics, girls more in the biological aspects of science. Von Qualen and Kambly (1945) arrived at the follow ing conclusions, as indicated by pupils' choice of reading-matter, that boys were least interested in conservation, astronomy, weather, and plants, while girls were least interested in plants, astron omy and magnetism.…”

The high-school chemistry test of the Armed Forces Institute

“…The fact that these objectives are most commonly tested does not necessarily mean that they are regarded as the most desirable outcomes for instruction. The Examinations Staff therefore made a study of research concerned with the methods and rationale of instruction in high-school chemistry (I, 2,3,4,3,6,7,8) in an attempt to describe more extensively and explicitly the range of specific objectives of instruction.…”

The effects of computer simulation models on middle school students' understanding of the anatomy and morphology of the frog

“…DeRosa (1986) claimed that "in one year alone, U. S. suppliers shipped approximately 5 million frogs for education and research purposes." In addition, opponents of dissection claim that dissection creates negative attitudes in students toward animal species as well as creating psychological trauma in students (DeRosa, 1986;Zim, 1940;& Leib, 1985). According to Orlans (1988), when dissection was first introduced, some students lost their interest in biology because of the negative feelings dissection evoked and because of the psychological trauma dissection induced.…”