145511 event 1344687995 1475891964 <![CDATA[C21U Brown Bag with Professor Michael F. Schatz]]> K-12 Science Education Framework and Next Generation Science Standards: An Overview

Presented by: Michael F. Schatz, Professor, Georgia Tech School of Physics

The development of national standards for K-12 science education is currently in progress, with input from twenty-six states (including Georgia) and numerous discipline-specific societies. The blueprint for standards development is the 2012 NRC report, “A Framework for K-12 Science Education.” Although the explicit focus is K-12 science, this report describes a fundamental reevaluation of science education that is useful for rethinking undergraduate science.  

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C21U Associate Director
pbaker@cc.gatech.edu

]]> Mike Schatz is a Professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from the University of Notre Dame in 1983 and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas in 1991. He is interested in using Physics Education Research to improve large calculus-based introductory physics courses. These courses provide exposure to physics fundamentals required by virtually all science and engineering majors in the U.S.; thus, strengthing introductory physics instruction helps advance the scientific and technological capabilites of our nation. In recent years, Physics Education Research has helped strengthen introductory physics; however, these courses still have significant room for improvement in a number of respects. The group's work focuses on two efforts to strengthen introductory courses, specifically: (1) Using cognitive science in a systematic way to develop new instructional materials, and (2) Developing ways to integrate numerical computation and visualization into all aspects (lecture, lab and homework) of the introductory course.

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