Angelo Collins

National Science Education Standards: A political document

The National Science Education Standards provides a vision teaching and learning science for the science education system and criteria to measure progress toward that vision. The document contains standards for content, teaching, assessment, three major levers of change identified by policy analysts. The Standards also include program standards for schools and districts and system standards. This article describes how the Standards were developed within a political context, through a process with political aspects and includes political intents. It closes with recommendations about why and how science education researchers might engage in the political process.

Science for Early Adolescence Teachers (Science FEAT): A Program for Research and Learning.

This article is based on a paper which received the “Innovations in Teaching Science Teachers” award at the 1995 meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science. The award is made possible by Delta Education.

Good Intentions Are Not Enough: A Story of Collaboration in Science, Education, and Technology

(1999). Good Intentions Are Not Enough: A Story of Collaboration in Science, Education, and Technology. Journal of Science Teacher Education: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 3-20.