Tolman, Richard R.  Biology Teaching in the United States.  Segunda Conferencia Interamericana sobre la Ensenanza de la Biologia.  Organization of American States, 1973. (A report given in Spanish at an OAS Conference in Asuncion, Paraguay, July 3‑7, 1972.  The manuscript was submitted in Spanish and, for some unknown reason, translated back into English.  Therefore, I am not responsible for the quality of English in this article.)

 

Tolman, Richard R.  The BSCS Elementary School Sciences Program:  A Status Report.  BSCS Newsletter 54.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  Elementary School Sciences Program.  BSCS Newsletter 56.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  BSCS International Program.  BSCS Newsletter 56.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  Tools for Inquiry.  BSCS Newsletter 57.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  BSCS Adaptations That May Be Useful in Bilingual Education.  BSCS Newsletter 59.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  The BSCS Elementary School Sciences Program:  An Overview.  BSCS Newsletter.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  A Look at the Achievement Test Score Declines.  BSCS Newsletter 65.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  Preliminary Formative Evaluation Report for the BSCS Elementary School Sciences Program.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott Company, 1976.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  Content and Skills in the BSCS Elementary School Sciences Program.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott Company, 1976.

 

Tolman, Richard P. (sic) Comment on "The Development of Criterion‑Validated Test Items for Four Integrated Sciences Processes." Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 13 (6), 573‑574.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  Final Formative Evaluation Report:  BSCS Elementary School Sciences Program.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott Company, 1977.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and Barufaldi, James.  ESSP:  The BSCS Elementary School Sciences Program.  The Texas Science Teacher, 7 (1), March 1978.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  That Was No Micrograph.  Science and Children, 15 (8), 4.

Tolman, Richard R.  and Barufaldi, James P.  The Effects of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Elementary School Sciences Program on Attitudes Toward Science Among Elementary School Teachers.  Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 16 (5), 401‑406, 1979.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  "Aportes a la Ensenanza de la Biologia." Actualidades Biologicas, 3 (10), 82‑86, Oct.‑Dec., 1974.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and Bishop, Janet L.  Experimental Use of the Preschool‑Primary Nowicki‑Strickland Internal‑­External Control Scale with Educable Mentally Retarded Students.  The Journal for Special Educators, XVI (3), Spring 1980.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  Absorption of Peanuts.  The New England Journal of Medicine, 304 (6), 359, February 5, 1981.

 

Tolman, Richard R.  Difficulties in Genetics Problem-­Solving.  The American Biology Teacher, December, 1983.

 

Tolman, Richard M. (Sic), "Critique of `Scientific Language and the High School Pupil:  Prefe­rential Thinking Styles', by P. P. Lynch."  Investigations in Science Education, 9 (3), 48‑55, 1983.

 

Tolman, Richard R. (1987). Critique of "Misconceptions about the concept of natural selection by medical biology students," by M. N. Brumby. Investigations in Science Education, 13 (2), 27-34, 1987.

 

Tolman, Richard R., Jeffery, Duane E., and Wixom, Lynn. (1987). A Study of the Teaching of Evolution in Utah County High School Biology Classes. Utah Academy of Arts, Science, and Letters.

 

Tolman, Richard R., Baird, J. Hugh, and Haderlie, Steven. (1988). A study of science education graduates at Brigham Young University. Science Education 72 (1), 93-101.

 

Tolman, Marvin N., Sudweeks, Richard R., Baird, J. Hugh, and Tolman, Richard R. (1988). "Comparing Oral and Silent Reading of Multiple Choice Test Items with Elementary Students." Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association, Jackson, Wyoming.

 

Sudweeks, Richard R., Richard R. Tolman, Marvin N., Baird, J. Hugh, and Tolman, Richard R. (1988). Testing Reading Ability vs. Knowledge of Science: A Comparison of Two Methods of Administering Multiple Choice Tests to Elementary School Children. Paper presented at annual meetings of the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association.

 

Sudweeks, Richard R., Richard R. Tolman, Marvin N., Baird, J. Hugh, and Tolman, Richard R. (1988). Testing Reading Ability vs. Knowledge of Science: A Comparison of Two Methods of Administering Multiple Choice Tests to Elementary School Children. Paper presented at annual meeting of the California Educational Research Association.

Tolman, Marvin N., Sudweeks, Richard R., Baird, J. Hugh, and Tolman, Richard R. (1989). "Comparing Oral and Silent Reading of Multiple Choice Test Items with Elementary Students." Final report of research funded by the College of Education.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and J. H. Baird. 1991. Utah Core Curriculum Assessment Item Pool: Life Science. Utah State Office of Education.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and J. H. Baird. 1991. Utah Core Curriculum Assessment Item Pool: Earth-Space Science. Utah State Office of Education.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and J. H. Baird. 1991. Utah Core Curriculum Assessment Item Pool: Physical Science. Utah State Office of Education.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and J. H. Baird. 1991. Utah Core Curriculum Assessment Item Pool: Biological-Earth Science. Utah State Office of Education.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and J. H. Baird. 1991. Utah Core Curriculum Assessment Item Pool: Physical-Earth Science. Utah State Office of Education.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and J. H. Baird. 1991. Utah Core Curriculum Assessment Item Pool: Biology. Utah State Office of Education.

 

Tolman, Richard R. and J. H. Baird. 1991. Utah Core Curriculum Assessment Item Pool: Physics. Utah State Office of Education.

 

Tolman, M.N., Sudweeks, R., Baird, H., and Tolman, R. Does reading ability affect science test scores? Science and Children, September 1991, 44-47.

 

Hardy, G., Sudweeks, R., Tolman, M., Tolman, R., and Baird, H. Does listening ability affect science test scores? Science and Children, October 1991, 43-35.

 

Sudweeks, Richard R. and Richard R. Tolman. The Use of Empirical Versus Subjective Procedures for Identifying Science Test Items Which Function Differentially for Females and Males. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, (63rd, Atlanta, GA, April 8-11, 1990)

 

Sudweeks, Richard R. and Richard R. Tolman.   Empirical Versus Subjective Procedures for Identifying Gender Differences in Science Test Items. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 30, No.1, pp. 3-19, January 1993.

Tolman, Richard R.  An Information Processing Model of Genetics Problem-solving. March 19, 1981.

Robinson, J. T. and Tolman, R. R.  Human Sciences Data RESEARCH REPORT File, HSPALL, User's Guide for the Machine‑Readable Data File.  Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO, 80027.  December 31, 1981.

 

Robinson, J. T. and Tolman, R. R.  Codebook for Human Sciences Data File, HSPALL.  Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO, 80027.  December 31, 1981.

 

Robinson, J. T. and Tolman, R. R.  Human Sciences Activity Characteristics and Reviewer Evaluation File, HSACT, User's Guide for the Machine‑Readable Data File.  Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027, December 31, 1981.

 

Robinson, J. T. and Tolman, R. R.  Codebook for Human Sciences Activity Characteristics and Reviewer Evaluation File.  HSACT.  Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027.  December 31, 1981.

 

Robinson, J. T. and Tolman, R. R.  Human Sciences KNOWING Module Data File, HSPKNOW, User's Guide to the Machine‑ Readable Data File.  Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027.  December 31, 1981.

 

Robinson, J. T. and Tolman, R. R.  Codebook for Human Sciences KNOWING Module Data File, HSPKNOW.  Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027.  December 31, 1981.

 

Robinson, J. T. and Tolman, R. R.  Codebook for Human Sciences SURROUNDINGS Module Activity Data File, SURRACT.  Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027.  December 31, 1981.

Annual science inservice courses funded through NSF and/or Title II since 1983. Inservice courses have been conducted during the academic year and during the annual Summer Science Camp at Park City.

Cognitive science ‑ information processing in genetics problem-solving (funded by NSF-RISE)

Computer‑assisted instruction and programming

Cognitive development of adolescents

Curriculum development

Evaluation and research design

Statistics ‑ parametric and non‑parametric

Bilingual education

Science teacher training and instruction (all levels)

From 1969 to the present time I have presented over 100 workshops on different BSCS materials and other science curriculum projects at a variety of universities, school districts, and national and state conventions.  Some of the universities include Emory University, University of Iowa, Florida Atlantic University, Memphis State University, University of Texas, Columbia University, University of California at Davis, University of Northern Colorado, University of Colorado, Harvard University, and others.  Some of the conventions include those of the National Science Teachers Association, National Association of Biology Teachers, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of Elementary School Principals, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Middle Schools Association, Council for Exceptional Children, and others.  I have also worked with many school districts around the country providing inservice training for elementary, junior high, ­middle school, and high school teachers.

 

Since arriving at BYU in 1982, I have initiated statewide inservice training for science teachers at the elementary and secondary school levels. Funds have been obtained from the National Science Foundation, Utah State Office of Education, Utah State Board of Regents and EESA Title II. I have taught science content, science teaching methods, and multi-disciplinary science teaching methods to teachers in every one of the 40 school districts in the state of Utah. I have also taught courses on the geology of the Wasatch Mountains and Historical Geology of Utah for Alpine, Nebo, Wasatch, and Provo districts.

Member, International Activities Committee, 1970‑82.

Conducted workshops for Jim Wailes' NSF Summer Institute, 1972-1977.

Assisted in teaching Biology 400 course, 1970-1974. 

Member of various doctoral committees (including chairman).

Hosted many domestic and foreign visitors referred to BSCS by the faculty of the School of Education.

Member, Attendant Rank Committee, 1971‑82.

Conferred frequently with Harold Anderson on School of Education policies, especially those concerning the training of graduates and undergraduates in Science Education.

Conducted evaluation seminars with doctoral students in School of Education.

Assisted various faculty members with science education presentations. 

Panel member ‑ "Creation versus Evolution."

Worked in close liaison with teams adapting and publishing materials in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Columbia.

 

1969‑82.  Traveled to virtually every country in Latin America to consult with and assist personnel using BSCS materials.

 

January‑February, 1970.  Instructor in six‑week teacher training seminar in Montevideo, Uruguay, sponsored by the Organization of American States.

 

1971‑1973.  Worked closely with Brazilian science educators in the evaluation of the Brazilian adaptation of the BSCS Green Version; co‑author of final report.

 

April, 1972.  U. S. representative to the Second Interamerican Conference on Biology Teaching, Asuncion, Paraguay.  Presented a major paper (listed under publications) at this conference.

April, 1974.  Conducted a three‑week intensive workshop on BSCS materials for the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

April, 1974.  Conducted a one‑week short course on evaluation techniques for the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

February, 1976.  Conducted a two‑week workshop on procedures for evaluating textbooks and the BSCS Human Sciences Program for USAID in Lisbon, Portugal.

February, 1977 and April, 1981.  Conducted biology teaching seminars for the Portuguese Ministry of Education and assisted biology adaptation team with writing and adapting BSCS materials.

1969‑82.  BSCS Consultant for International Cooperation. Overseer of BSCS adaptation programs that are used in 60 countries, 16 languages.

Proposal reviewer for NSF CAUSE program.

A‑V materials reviewer for The American Biology Teacher.

Manuscripts to various biology texts.

Proposal reviewer for NSF materials development program.

Who's Who in American Education

Notable Americans of 1976‑1977

International Who's Who in Community Service

Who's Who in the West, 17th ed., 18th ed.

Phi Kappa Phi

Sigma Xi

Who's Who in the World, 12th ed., 1994

Who=s Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd Edition, Marquis Who=s Who, New Providence N.J. 1996

Who=s Who in the West 1996-1997, 25th Edition

Governor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, 2000

Richard Peterson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Education, Utah Science          

Teachers Association, 2003

Developed and instituted a series of inquiry-oriented, take-home laboratory activities for Biology 100 students at BYU.

Developed and implemented a computer-based laboratory for Biology 101 students.

Initiated the Biology 101 laboratory course for elementary education majors to provide hands-on laboratory activities that prospective teachers could use with their own classes.

Implemented a computer-driven laser videodisc system for slide and motion picture projection in Biology 100 and Zoology 334.

Developed, with Hugh Baird of Secondary Education, an individualized Secondary Education 276 course and syllabus.

Utilized cordless microphones for instructor and students to involve more student-instructor interaction in large group sections of Biology 100.

Uses inquiry-oriented, problem-solving approach in teaching all science courses.

Biology 100

Biology 101

Zoology 334

Zoology 338

Zoology 515R

Zoology 549R

Secondary Education 276

Secondary Education 476

Secondary Education 514R

Secondary Education 515R

Rel C 491, 492

Honors 344R

BIOL 1010

BIOL 4200

Bioethics