Conference Session

Pedagogical Innovations in Laboratory Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Sugg, United States Navy; Elizabeth Gentry, National Institute of Standards and Technology; John Fishell, STEP Conference

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

secondary school scored well below the internationalaverage in mathematics and science according to the Third International Mathematics andScience Study (TIMSS); and, the US ranked 18th among 21 industrialized nations also perTIMSS, surpassing only Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa [5]. Information from theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development which consists of 30 membercountries shows that American 15 year olds have actually lost ground in mathematics andscience compared to other member countries. In the organizations studies, the highest achievingU.S. students were either at or below its average across member nations. Almost 25 percent ofU.S. students demonstrated very low proficiency in science and 28 percent scored below