1. See, for example, the Department of Education's most recent National Assessment of Education Progress,The Science Report Card, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. (1988);
2. and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's second International Science Study,Science Achievement in Seventeen Countries: A Preliminary Report, Pergamon, Oxford (1988).
3. E. B. Fiske, The New York Times Educational Supplement, 4 January 1987, p. 20.
4. Center for Education Statistics,High School and Beyond, US Department of Education, Washington, D.C. (1987).
5. See, for example, B. G. Aldridge,Essential Changes in Secondary School Science: Scope, Sequence and Coordination, National Science Teachers Association, Washington, D.C. (1989).