1. Preface

   • Laurie Rattray-Wood
   • Peter Ferguson

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - v

2. Science education, cognitive developmental research and theory in the U.K.

   • Colin Power

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 8

3. A comparative critique of several methods of collecting data for cognitive mapping

   • Peter J. Fensham
   • Jan Garrard
   • Leo West

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 16

4. A procedure for using and evaluating concept maps

   • Patrick J. Cronin
   • John Dekhers
   • Jeffrey G. Dunn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 24

5. Conceptual change — For pupils and teachers

   • Roger Osborne

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 31

6. Student thinking in a secondary biology classroom

   • John Bdwards
   • Perc Marland

   OriginalPaper Pages: 32 - 41

7. Patterns of reasoning: Probability

   • Kenneth Tobin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 49

8. Teacher language complexity and pupil task involvement

   • Daphne M. Buckley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 50 - 54

9. Nonverbal behaviour of classroom teachers and its influence on puplil task-involvement

   • Janice M. Wilson
   • J. E. Butler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 63

10. Lack of background in science: Is it likely to always adversely affect the classroom performance of primary teachers in science lessons?

    • David Symington

    OriginalPaper Pages: 64 - 70

11. A perspective on the differences between expert and novice performance in solving physics problems

    • Audrey B. Champagne
    • Richard F. Gunstone
    • Leopold E. Klopfer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 77

12. What lower secondary students should understand about the mechanisms of inheritance and what they do understand following instruction

    • Mark W. Hackling
    • David F. Treagust

    OriginalPaper Pages: 78 - 88

13. Computer simulation and concept development in students of genetics

    • Judith P. Kinnear
    • Marjory-Dore Martin
    • Joseph D. Novak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 96

14. Science related attitudes amongst Victorian catholic primary school teachers

    • Peter T. White

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 101

15. The use of commonality analysis in the analysis of teachers' attitudes and practice towards primary science

    • Peter Codd

    OriginalPaper Pages: 102 - 106

16. Medical students' perception of science

    • Margaret Brumby

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 114

17. A study of the scientific attitude of science educators who study scientific attitudes

    • C. F. Gauld

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 120

18. Attitude to conservation of the environment and awareness of environmental issues

    • M. N. Maddock
    • K. McDonald

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 130

19. Pupils' prescriptions for good science teachers

    • L. Endean

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 135

20. Matriculation students' perceptions of the similarity of science courses offered by tertiary institutions in queensland

    • M. P. McFarlane
    • B. Cameron

    OriginalPaper Pages: 136 - 143

21. What or where is the ‘nature’ of science teaching?

    • Rod A. Fawns

    OriginalPaper Pages: 144 - 153