1. Preface

   • Richard P. Tisher

   EditorialNotes Pages: vi - vi

2. The use of data in problem solving: The whys, whens and wherefores

   • Chris Dawson
   • Jack Rowell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 10

3. Learning in science: Some wider perspectives

   • Jan Garrard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 22

4. Improving the learning environment for Aboriginal students in science classrooms

   • Steve M. Ritchie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 30

5. The matter of energy

   • Malcolm Carr
   • Valda Kirkwood
   • Barry Newman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 37

6. Teaching thinking — A focus for science teaching?

   • John Edwards

   OriginalPaper Pages: 38 - 46

7. Science and its professionals: Views of Australian scientists on science education

   • Paul Strube

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 55

8. Drawing out ideas: A neglected role for scientific diagrams

   • Richard K. Lowe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 56 - 66

9. Clear thinking and scientific method for our future leaders

   • Rod Fawns

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 75

10. Preservice teachers: Process skill entry behaviour and opinions about teaching primary science

    • Keith Skamp

    OriginalPaper Pages: 76 - 86

11. Student beliefs and cognitive structure

    • Colin Gauld

    OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 93

12. Social background, sources of information, models of behaviour, attitude, awareness and behaviour in health-related matters

    • Max Maddock

    OriginalPaper Pages: 94 - 103

13. Girls in science — An evaluation of one school's approach to the gender bias in science

    • Barbara Johnson
    • Peter Fensham
    • Shirley Sampson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 104 - 112

14. Exploring ideas about magnets

    • John Bailey
    • Rod Francis
    • Doug Hill

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 116

15. Energy in three New Zealand secondary school junior science classrooms

    • Malcom Carr
    • Valda Kirkwood
    • Ralph Birdwhistell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 128

16. Teachers as researchers: The rationale; The reality

    • John Baird
    • Ian Mitchell
    • Jeff Northfield

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 138

17. Descriptions and frameworks of solutions and reactions in solutions

    • Nusirjan
    • Peter Fensham

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 148

18. Conceptual change: Is it of value if students are ignorant of it?

    • Richard Gunstone
    • Robin Gray
    • Peter Searle

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 155

19. Student misconceptions about light: A comparative study of prevalent views found in Western Australia, France New Zealand, Sweden and the United States

    • Anthony Fetherstonhaugh
    • John Happs
    • David Treagust

    OriginalPaper Pages: 156 - 164

20. School physics as technology in China during the great proletarian cultural revolution: Lessons for the West

    • Roger Cross
    • Ronald Price

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 174

21. Drawing together teaching methods and strategies into a model for science education

    • Rod Francis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 181

22. Individual development during teacher training

    • John Baird
    • Peter Fensham
    • Richard White

    OriginalPaper Pages: 182 - 191

23. HSC chemistry students' understanding of the structure and properties of molecular and ionic compounds

    • Bill Butts
    • Roland Smith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 192 - 201

24. Studies in assessment

    • N. N. Hargraves
    • P. P. Lynch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 202 - 211

25. An analysis of teachers' and their students' views of the concept “Gravity”

    • Catherine Ameh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 212 - 219

26. Aspects of the non-formal fromotion of science education in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

    • Paul Webb

    OriginalPaper Pages: 220 - 227

27. Parental involvement in a science program

    • David Symington
    • Dorothy Hayes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 228 - 235

28. The impact of assessment changes on the science curriculum a descriptive account

    • Jim Butler
    • Warren Beasley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 236 - 243

29. Science curriculum development in New Zealand a historical account

    • Beverly Bell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 244 - 252

30. Editorial comment

    EditorialNotes Pages: 253 - 258