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Standards for K-12 Engineering Education?

124 STANDARDS FOR K–12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION?

Engineering Frameworks for a High School Setting (Koehler et al., 2005), updated engineering
standards, is an attempt to improve on the engineering standards in Benchmarks, NSES, and STL. The
document is similar in many ways to previous frameworks that focused only on high school engineering
standards. This document uses the following outline:

I. Content Standards
A. Information and Communication
1. Instruments

2. Mediums
B. Sources of Power/Energy
C. Transportation
D. Food and Medicine
1. Engineering in Food

2. Engineering in Medicine

II. Engineering Tools
A. Engineering Paradigm [engineering design process]
B. Science and Mathematics
C. Social Studies
D. Computer Tools

Part I is similar to the content in Chapter 8 ,The Designed World, from Benchmarks, whereas Part II is
similar to Chapter 3, The Nature of Technology, and “Technology and Science” in NSES. Because Part
II seemed to be closest in spirit to the engineering standards described previously, these have been
included in Table 4. The authors of this framework used it successfully to compare the content of
standards in 49 states (Koehler et al., 2006).

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