Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools Report of the Content Panel for Biology (2002) / Chapter Skim
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; the IBO; and previous NRC reports, including Fulfilling the Promise: Biology Education in the Nation's Schools (NRC, 19903; National Science Education Standards (referred to below as NSES; NRC, 1996a) and its recent addendum Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards (INSES; NRC, 2000b)
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The panel concludes that efforts to improve the AP and IB programs should be part of a broad initiative to reform biology teaching, as outlined in the NSES and the recent report of the Glenn Commission (National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, 20001. We are encouraged that the recent recommendations of the Commission on the Future of the Advanced Placement Program [AP Commission]
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The first question in the panel's charge was, "To what degree do the AP and IB programs incorporate current knowledge about cognition and learning in mathematics and science in their curricula, instructions, and assessments? " We deal separately with the three aspects of this question in Chapters 3 and 4.
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