Comments on: Dismal results for US science education « Gas station without pumps http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/dismal-results-for-us-science-education-gas-station-without-pumps/ How do people understand computing, and how can we improve that understanding? Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Economic impact of educational research: Does computing education research matter? « Computing Education Blog http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/dismal-results-for-us-science-education-gas-station-without-pumps/#comment-11336 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:19:05 +0000 http://computinged.wordpress.com/?p=3940#comment-11336 [...] in the percentage of university students interested in majoring in STEM fields.” (p. 23)  Despite our concerns about low scores, the references in Roschelle et al. say that the slope is upward. My guess is that improving [...]

]]> By: Mark Miller http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/dismal-results-for-us-science-education-gas-station-without-pumps/#comment-11133 Tue, 29 May 2012 22:35:35 +0000 http://computinged.wordpress.com/?p=3940#comment-11133 With fewer than a third of our students having the science understanding that they should have entering high school, our high school science teachers are reduced to doing remedial education, teaching middle school science, and our college teachers then having to teach high school science.

I don’t know if college science professors were complaining about this years ago, but when I took physics in college it was reminiscent of high school physics, just with a lot more material to cover, and using calculus instead of high school algebra. The epistemology was the same. I figure what the author is talking about is the content, but I think what is also of value is the development of epistemology in the students.

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]]> By: Tom Hoffman http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/dismal-results-for-us-science-education-gas-station-without-pumps/#comment-10872 Thu, 17 May 2012 14:11:47 +0000 http://computinged.wordpress.com/?p=3940#comment-10872 Keep in mind that the proficiency levels for NAEP are highly arbitrary and misleadingly labeled.

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