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tHE tEACHING OF SCIENCE: 21 st-CENTURY PERSPECTIVES 193
Index
A
A Decade of Action: Sustaining Global
Competitiveness, 149
A History of Ideas in Science Education, 16
A Love of Discovery, 53
AAAS. See American Association for the
Advancement of Science
Accreditation of science teachers, 152
Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purposes
to Practices, 5, 95
Acid rain (PISA assessment unit), 106–108,
173–175
Adaptability, 133, 134, 153
Agassiz, Louis, 68
Aikenhead, Glen, 76
American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS),
13, 69
Benchmarks for Science Literacy, 39, 77,
78, 144, 149
Project 2061, 18, 77–78
Science for All Americans, 77–78
American Chemical Society, 145
America’s Lab Report: Investigations in High
School Science, 14, 89, 137, 157
Assessing Scientific, Reading, and
Mathematical Literacy: A Framework
for PISA 2006, 97
Assessment Frameworks and Specifications
2003, 39
Assessments, 2, 3, 61–62
inquiry and, 19–20
international, 6–7, 24–25
apparent contradiction in, 24–25
Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA), 24, 26–28,
39, 90–92, 95, 97–113, 153published reports of, 24
Trends in International Mathematics
and Science Study (TIMSS),
13, 18, 24, 26, 38, 105, 153
National Assessment of Education
Progress (NAEP), 25–26, 39, 105,
131, 144, 149, 152
student achievement on, 159
student preparation for, 19
Atkin, J. Myron, 53B
Backward design, 61, 62
Benchmarks for Science Literacy, 39, 77, 78,
144, 149
Beneficence, 124, 125
Bennis, Warren, 164
Bestor, Arthur, 115
Biological Investigations for Secondary School
Students, xv
Biological Sciences: An Inquiry Into Life, xiii
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
(BSCS), xiii–xv, 49, 51, 54, 63, 115,
118, 145, 156
BSCS “Yellow Version,” xiii, 34
Committee on the Gifted Student,
xiv–xv
Committee on the Special Student, xv
curriculum framework for BSCS
Science: T.R.A.C.S., 43, 54–55
curriculum framework for elementary
program, 54
5E Instructional Model, 12–13, 55–56, 137
backward design and, 61–62
components of, 12
Dewey’s complete act of thought
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