Cooking is a tangible, familiar, and delicious tool for teaching physics, which is easy to implement in a university setting. Through our courses at Harvard and UCLA, each year we are engaging hundreds of undergraduate students, primarily non-science majors, in science concepts and the scientific research process. We find that weekly lectures by…

FROM AMONG APPROXIMATELY 175 APPLICANTS, 40 PERSONS WERE SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN A CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS CURRENT RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL LEARNING, INCLUDING BOTH CLASSROOM AND LABORATORY STUDIES. THE CONFERENCE WAS ORGANIZED INTO FOUR GROUPS--(1) IN GROUP A, THE EMPHASIS WAS ON LEARNING, INSTRUCTION, AND PUPIL CHARACTERISTICS, WITH PARTICULAR…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO IDENTIFY THOSE FACTORS WHICH FACILITATE OR HINDER THE EFFECTIVE TRAINING OF JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS AND TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NEW TEACHING AIDS IN TRAINING THEM, IN HOLDING THEIR INTEREST IN VOLUNTARY TRAINING PROGRAMS, AND IN LEADING THEM TO ENROLL IN FUTURE TRAINING COURSES. ALL JOURNEYMAN…