The Challenges of Alignment for the Next Generation Science Standards

Autor/inn/en	Fulmer, Gavin W.; Tanas, Jamie; Weiss, Kathleen A.
Titel	The Challenges of Alignment for the Next Generation Science Standards
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 55 (2018) 7, S.1076-1100 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4308
DOI	10.1002/tea.21481
Schlagwörter	Alignment (Education); Academic Standards; Science Education; Definitions; Science Curriculum; Curriculum Evaluation; Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Evaluation Methods; Learning Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Begriffsbestimmung; Curriculum; Evaluation; Curriculumevaluation; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Evaluierung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Learning process; Lernprozess
Abstract	Alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is essential in efforts to interpret the standards and to compare curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment efforts with respect to the standards. However, relatively little work has explored the alignment implications of NGSS. This article is a conceptual analysis that gives an overview of alignment definitions and methods, and then explores how alignment has been explicitly or implicitly described in extant work on interpretation of NGSS. The purpose is to highlight challenges that remain to be addressed for ensuring alignment for curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy under NGSS. Four challenges for alignment and interpretation research on NGSS are discussed: (1) What are the appropriate referents and comparands for judging alignment under NGSS? (2) How is alignment for integrated standards to be defined and judged? (3) What is the appropriate idea of focus in NGSS? (4) What role do learning progressions, and alignment with respect to them, play for interpreting NGSS? (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01