INVESTIGATIONS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION Editor

This volume includes abstracts and abstractors' critiques of 15 published research reports related to elementary, secondary and college science teaching and learning. Topics include: (1) assessing attitudes toward energy conservation; (2) persuasive communications; (3) questioning techniques; (4) teachers ' verbal exposition on student participation in biologl, classes; (5) verbal behaviors; (6) cognitive skills; (7) reading micrographs; (8) writing assignments in general chemistry; (9) prelaboratory procedures in chemistry; (10) short courses in science; (11) wait time; (12) science teaching learning attrIbutes of students; (13) classroom evaluation materials; (14) teaching energy concepts; and (15) children's understandings of cause and effect relationships. The responses of three authors to the critiques of the.ir research are reported. (CW