Agriculture's Role in K-12 Education Proceedings of a Forum on the National Science Education Standards (1998) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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In 1991, a group of science education associations asked the National Research Council (NRC) to coordinate development of national standards for content, teaching, and assessment for K-12 science education.
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Educators shared their experiences in implementing the National Science Education Standards and provided their perspectives on teacher education, curriculum decisions and design, coordinating community resources, and sustaining support for science education reform. Scientists discussed their roles in undertaking education-related activities and new directions professional societies might take to make an impact on the quality of science education.
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"This terminology essentially constitutes the secret language of science that isolates scientists from the public, teachers, and children. One of our primary responsibilities is to translate, into clear common language, the secret language of our diverse disciplines, so that we and they may engage in the exciting discourse that science will generate." There is a strong argument for a scientifically literate population, explained Harold Pratt, director of the K-12 Policy and Practice Division of the National Research Council's Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education.
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represent a wider definition of content than was used in the past and include the basic principle of learning science through inquiry. According to the National Science Education Standards, inquiry "requires that students combine processes and scientific knowledge as they use scientific reasoning and critical thinking to develop their understanding of science." The intention of the National Science Education Standards is to describe "the abilities to carry out an investigation, as well as the understanding of the nature of the inquiry and experimental processes." Scientists were eager to discuss the content standards, and clearly some were concerned that the National Science Education Standards contained few refer
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We simply needed a way to catalog outcomes list the knowledge that we wanted students to achieve." According to the National Science Education Standards, assessment standards "provide criteria to judge progress toward the science education vision of scientific literacy for all. The standards describe the quality of assessment practices used by teachers and state and federal agencies to measure student achievement and the opportunity provided students to learn science." To this end, the National Science Education Standards incorporates assessment strategies as a feedback mechanism to measure the progress of reform throughout the educational system (see Figure 1~.
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