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... Instead, we urge two approaches for leveraging current national and state standards to improve the quality of K–12 engineering education in the United States. The first approach, infusion, is a proactive strategy to embed relevant learning goals from one discipline (e.g., engineering)
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... Funding should be sufficient for an initial, intense development effort that lasts for one year or less, and additional support should be provided for periodic revisions as more research data become available about learning and teaching engineering on the K–12 level. Research on Learning The committee found very little research by cognitive scientists that could inform the development of standards for engineering education in K–12.
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... The survey should encompass formal and informal education, including after-school initiatives; build on data collected in the recent National Academies report on K–12 engineering education; and be conducted by an experienced education research organization. The survey should be periodically repeated to measure changes in the quality, scale, and impact of K–12 engineering education, and it should specifically take into account how the practices of infusion and mapping, consensus on core ideas in engineering, and the development of guidelines for instructional materials have contributed to change.
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