Exploring Content Standards for Engineering Education in K-12

美国国家科学院探索性提案旨在评估开发和实施K-12工程教育内容标准的潜在价值和可行性。由美国国家工程院（NAE）实施的这个探索性项目的具体目标是：(1)审查现有的定义K-12学生应该知道的内容的努力，(2)确定K-12科学、数学和技术的现有标准文件中可能与工程相关的元素，(3)考虑K-12工程教育的各种可能目的如何影响标准的内容和实施。(4)为制定和实施K-12工程标准，可能需要对国家和州一级的教育政策、计划和实践做出哪些改变。为了实现这些目标，该项目将进行文献审查，撰写两份委托撰写的背景文件，召开三次项目委员会会议，并举办为期两天的研讨会，征求专家对该主题的意见。该项目的主要成果将是一份同行评议的讲习班总结报告，该报告将分发给主要利益攸关方，并在各种专业会议上提出。预计该报告将为与建立工程标准有关的讨论和未来行动奠定基础。

The National Academy of Sciences exploratory proposal aims at assessing the potential value and feasibility of developing and implementing K-12 content standards for engineering education. The specific objectives of this exploratory project, to be carried out by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), are (1) to review existing efforts to define what K-12 students should know, (2) to identify elements of existing standards documents for K-12 science, mathematics, and technology that could link to engineering, (3) to consider how the various possible purposes for K-12 engineering education might affect the content and implementation of standards, and (4) to suggest what changes to educational policies, programs, and practices at the national and state levels might be needed to develop and implement K-12 engineering standards. To accomplish these objectives, the project will conduct literature reviews, two commissioned background papers, three meetings of the project committee, and a two-day workshop to solicit expert views on the subject. The principal product of the project will be a peer-reviewed workshop summary report, which will be distributed to key stakeholders and presented in various professional meetings. This report is expected to set the stage for discussions and future actions related to the establishment of engineering standards.