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The Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability (CSAA) curates a variety of WestEd resources, ranging from guidance documents, research papers, and policy briefs to tools and websites for public use. These resources are aimed at supporting state and local education agency leadership in making decisions about their standards, assessment programs, and accountability systems.

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The Progress of Education Reform: Science in the Early Years

This paper discusses how early science instruction has positive effects not only on readiness and achievement within the subject but also in reading and mathematics. It claims that many children are unprepared to achieve in school, in part because ...

2014 Guidance Early Learning Elementary School (K-5) Science Standards

Strategies for Developing Science Literacy

The Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership – a collaboration between California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), the Alameda County Office of Education, the East Bay Science Project, the Santa Clara County Office of Education, ...

Product or Tool Middle School (6-8) Science Curriculum and Instruction Standards

Council of State Science Supervisors: State Assessment Resources

The Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) is a professional organization made up of science education specialists from states and territories of the United States. The organization provides science education resources, including resources ...

Guidance Elementary School (K-5) High School (9-12) Middle School (6-8) Science Assessment Standards

Appendix A – Conceptual Shifts in the Next Generation Science Standards

Appendix A of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) explains how the NGSS are different from previous science education standards and how they are relfective of the conceptual shifts in science education in the United States. The ...

2013 Guidance Elementary School (K-5) High School (9-12) Middle School (6-8) Science Standards

Seeds of Science Roots of Reading

The Learning Design Group of the Lawrence Hall of Science, co-directed by Dr. Jacqueline Barber and Dr. David Pearson, is a research-based curriculum development project for educational K-8 science programs that offers 33 effective strategies on how ...

2015 Product or Tool Elementary School (K-5) Middle School (6-8) English Language Arts Science Curriculum and Instruction Diverse Learners Standards

A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

In A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas, the National Research Council articulates a new approach to K-12 science education and outlines a broad set of rigorous expectations intended to support all ...

2012 Knowledge Elementary School (K-5) High School (9-12) Middle School (6-8) Science Curriculum and Instruction Standards

Science Offers New Tools for Educators and Students

This resource is an article written for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) online newsletter. Science in the Classroom (SiTC) is an initiative for higher-education science educators, launched in October 2013 with support ...

2014 Guidance Higher Education Science Curriculum and Instruction Standards

Proficiency in Science: Assessment Challenges and Opportunities

As part of a Science magazine special issue on grand challenges in science education, the author provides an overview of the promise for the future of science learning with the release of the NGSS, and of the challenges associated with achieving the ...

2013 Knowledge Elementary School (K-5) High School (9-12) Middle School (6-8) Science Assessment Standards

NGSS Science and Engineering Education Community

This resource is part of a California State University (CSU) systemwide initiative designed to prepare teaches to be world-class in both the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Mathematics. The ...

2012 Guidance Elementary School (K-5) High School (9-12) Higher Education Middle School (6-8) Science Curriculum and Instruction Standards

Early Learning and Science Standards

This update features a literature review of early learning standards and science, specifically focused on the topics of engineering and domain-specific learning. It also includes a scan of selected states’ early learning standards.

2017 Knowledge Standards

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