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Turner, Steven C. – Science & Education, 2012
Between 1880 and 1920 the way science was taught in American High Schools changed dramatically. The old "lecture/demonstration" method, where information was presented to essentially passive students, was replaced by the "laboratory" method, where students performed their own experiments in specially constructed student laboratories. National…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Laboratory Manuals, Science Instruction, Science Education
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Tamir, Pinchas; Lunetta, Vincent N. – Science Education, 1981
Reviews and compares results of content analysis studies of selected high school science laboratory handbooks using the Laboratory Structure and Task Analysis Inventory (LAI). Findings from two biology, two chemistry, and two physics handbooks indicate highly structured investigations where students perform manipulative and observational…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Inquiry, Laboratory Manuals