The National Science Education Standards

by: Rodger W. Bybee and Audrey B. Champagne

The authors use the 1992 challenge from the National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment to frame the discussion in this article. Here is their challenge:

. . . [C]reate a vision for the scientifically literate person and standards for science education that, when established, would allow the vision to become reality. The standards, founded in exemplary practice and contemporary views of learning, science, society, and schooling, will serve to guide the science education system toward its goal of a scientifically literate citizenry in productive and socially responsible ways.

This article was first published in January, 1995.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 1/1/2000Stock # tst00_067_01_54Volume 067Issue 01

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