An Experimental Evaluation of a Student-Centered Method and a Teacher-Centered Method of Biological Science Instruction for General Education of College Students
WHICH OF two methods of teaching biological science to non-science majors, preparing for teaching careers, will result in better perform ance on criterion measures of abilities: (1) to re call and apply biological facts and principles, and (2) to use some of the inductive aspects of scientif ic thinking? This was the problem investigated in a recent quantitative study designed to s h ed fur ther light on a few aspects of the perennial prob lem of teaching methods. 1* The question of what ob j ectives are worthy of the science teacher's efforts were succinctly sum marized in four pivotal ones including, according to Kenneth E. Anderson: 2