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BOX 7-1 Literature Search Targets
Journals
American Educational Research Journal
Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis
Educational Leadership
Educational Researcher
Harvard Educational Review
International Journal of Science Education
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Journal of Science Education & Technology
Journal of Science Teacher Education
Journal of Teacher Education
Phi Delta Kappan
Research in Science & Technological Education
Research in Science Education
Review of Educational Research
Review of Research in Education
School Science & Mathematics
Science Educator
Science Scope
Science Teacher
Scientia Paedogogica Experimentalis
Teachers College Record
Teaching & Teacher Education
Federal Agencies
National Education Goals Panel
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Adult and Vocational Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Planning and Evaluation Services
Organizations
AAAS/Project 2061
American Federation of Teachers
American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Brookings Institution
Carnegie Corporation
Carnegie Foundation
Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
Cosmos
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Education Commission of the States
Education Development Center (EDC)
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
ERIC Clearinghouse (ERIC)
Fund for Improvement of Education
Hoover Institution/Stanford
Horizon Research, Inc.
Inverness Research Associates
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future
National Institute for Science Education
RAND Corporation
Research Triangle Institute (RTI)
SRI
TERC
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
The Urban Institute
Westat
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
organizations listed in Box 7-1. This base set was then cross-searched using the keywords in Box 7-2. Both of these lists were generated by a combination of suggestions from members of the Steering Committee, the Committee on Science Education K-12, staff, and others consulted by staff. The goal was to search multiple sources representing the full range of large and small entities involved in standards-based science education work and to include the work of groups having different philosophical and political perspectives.
Keyword searches were supplemented by “free text” searches—that is, looking through titles and abstracts for key words and phrases. To prevent exclusion of potentially useful studies, the searches were intentionally overinclusive (e.g., including full text, rather than just titles and abstracts) and encompassed everything from January 1993 (the year in which the Benchmarks were published) through October 2001.
