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Standards for K-12 Engineering Education?

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what the numbers stand for, we can assume they refer to grade levels in secondary education.
The sentences describing each outcome are broken up into fragments, and the parallel printing of
these fragments suggests that progression can be found in successive fragments. For instance,
the second fragment continues the verb in the outcome, and the fourth fragment contains a
resource used in the action expressed by the verb (see Table 2 for illustrations).

Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8

Students Students Students work Students proactively
implement implement cooperatively Students work make Students autonomously
given plans,

plans, safely safely operate to implement plans, collaboratively, decisions, adhere to make decisions, predict
operate equipment, adhere to OH&S

equipment when using recognise hazards to OH&S standards, regulations to minimise potential hazards at defined
when using traditional safely manage risk,

materials,
traditional operate equipment resources and select resources and points, organise resources
materials, simple when techniques
techniques

and
fundamental using traditional efficiently, and techniques to manage and skills to manage
techniques and technologies, materials, manipulate
and apply

stated
technologies, techniques and three variable contingencies, and contingencies, and
and apply arithmetic formulas to
formula to

simple achieve technologies, and manipulate multiple
arithmetic skills solutions to a apply resolve predictable variable manipulate multiple variable
to limited

achieve
solutions to a range of dimensional challenges that equations to resolve formulae in staged
arithmetic skills
meet given
predictable
set
to achieve solutions tolerances or challenges that meet calculations to resolve
challenge. challenges. to a range of performance precise tolerances or diverse challenges that meet
predictable standards. performance standards. industry and commercial
challenges. standards.

Table 2 A Sample of Standards in Western Australia

The same can be seen in the New South Wales document. The Victoria document, which is even
more condensed, has only a few words per unit; the description can be as short as “Use hand
tools” (see Table 3 for illustration).

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