Making Standards Work: A Case Study Of The Science Education Standards Implement Of The United States

The idea behind standards-based reform is to set clear standards for what we want students to learn and to use those academic standards to drive other changes in the system.The American National Science Education Standards (NSES) was therefore released in 1996, which was constructed by tens of thousands of people who were engaged in the writing, review, and consensus-building processes. The NSES is a guide to strategies, structures, and policies that support world-class science education in the United States.The intent of this paper is two-fold: 1) to provide a brief historical overview of Science Education Standards in the United States; 2) to examine the influences of the Science Education Standards implementation. The research methods were historical documents analysis, factor analysis and comparison principal.Results indicated that Constructivism approaches in science education have been mostly emphasized through the whole National Science Education Standards. It was therefore comes the conclusion that teachers' teaching belief should be carefully reconstructed when planning teacher development programs in order to successfully implement science reform recommendation. Students learning styles and science curriculums development should also be considered. What's more, people should work to improve test instruments to ensure that the results reflect students' skills and knowledge at the appropriate grade and performance level.In sum, if the country is to achieve its goal of educating all students to a high standard, it must develop comprehensive and coherent standards-based systems.