Self-Instructional Materials for Underprepared Science Students.

Abstract

Recent reports such as A Nation At Risk lend support to the notion that many of the learners who enter American colleges have some major deficiencies. Goldberg and Harvey (6) report that American students do not rank first or second in any of 19 international assessments; that about 13 percent of American teenagers are functionally illiterate; that the number of remedial mathematics courses offered in four-year public colleges increased by 72 percent between 1975 and 1980; and that only about one-fourth of recent