The teacher-participants did not perceive an increase in their principals' interest in their teaching environmental science activities. To go to this article, click here . For most of the course, student access was restricted to assigned problem solutions, placed on library reserve after discussion in class and collection of homework. During the last two weeks, however, solutions to all textbook problems in three c hapters were made available. We seized the opportunity to survey student attitudes toward these altered circumstances, collecting responses from 128 students.
Results confirm a definite preference for freer access to solutions.
Responses to direct-comparison questions suggest enhanced student engagement with problems, a desirable learning indicator. To go to this article, click here . Replies from Our Readers . . . To go to this article, click here . Click here to go back to the EJSE Archive page.