Core Ideas in Science Education, 9/2006

Total responses so far: 1565


Do you agree or disagree with this statement: [Science education] standards are still too broad, resulting in superficial coverage of science that fails to link concepts or develop them over successive grades.

Response
Percent
Count
Agree 78.2%
1224
Disagree 19.7%
308

Do you believe the next generation of science standards and curricula at the national and state levels should be centered on a few core ideas in science and should expand on them each year, at increasing levels of complexity, across grades K-8?

Response
Percent
Count
Agree 85.6%
1339
Disagree 13.7%
215