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Abstracts and abstractors ' critiques of 10 published research reports related to misconceptions, attitudes, gender and miscellaneous issues are presented in this issue. Studies include: (1) the development, revision, refinement, and partial validation of an instrument to assess preservice elementary teachers ' process orientation toward science; (2) a comparison of the effectiveness of three different methods for pooling student scores to provide daily data points for a time series analysis; (3) a study done to determine underlying factors associated with students ' interests in science and to see if these factors differed by gender and race; (4) an attempt to identify concepts and propositions necessary for grade 10 students to comprehend the mechanisms of inheritance and to see which of these concepts and propositions were most frequently misunderstood; (5) a study hypothesizing that inadequacies in textbooks contribute t