The effects of inservice for maintaining the laboratory learning environment on junior high school science teachers and on selected student outcomes

The declining achievement of junior high school students in science focused attention on the type of instructional strategies which would benefit these students and on the type of inservice necessary to facilitate junior high school science teachers in using such strategies. It was proposed that a specifically designed inservice for junior high school science teachers could effect the teacher's attitude toward the suggested instructional strategies emphasizing hands on laboratory instruction and the use of such instructional strategies in the science classroom. As a result, student achievement in the concepts and processes of science was effected. [...]