With a first draft of common science standards expected out soon, the National Research Council is gearing up to help states figure out the best way to assess the scientific knowledge and skills to be ...

Conceptual spaces offer a geometrically grounded framework for representing knowledge, where concepts are mapped as regions within multidimensional spaces defined by quality dimensions. This approach ...

It is generally accepted that pre-college science education should emphasize the process of inquiry, i.e., develop an understanding about natural phenomenon through experimentation, especially ...