Science Standards Alignment
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The Board of Higher Education meeting discussed aligning high school science standards and college admissions requirements. They recommended revising the admissions science requirement to include three lab-based science, technology, or engineering courses. This would align with current high school standards and recognize technology/engineering courses taken for science credit. It establishes a more aligned system between K-12, higher education, and workforce needs for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills.
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Science Standards Alignment
- 1. Board of Higher Education Meeting | December 6, 2011
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- Admissions standards to the four-year public universities require three years of science, including two with a lab, with courses drawn from the natural and physical sciences. MassCore calls for three years of lab based science with courses drawn from the natural or physical sciences, technology or engineering. The disconnect has caused significant confusion among students who complete the state recommended MassCore course of study only to find that technology/engineering courses acceptable in the science category under MassCore are not accepted as a science for admissions purposes.
- Amend the admissions standard in science for Massachusetts public universities to require three years of lab-based science, including the natural and physical sciences and technology/engineering. Consider titling this admissions category “science and engineering” or “science, technology and engineering (STE)”. Only those STE courses that have been designated as a science course (taken for science credit) by the high school should be acceptable under the new science admissions standard.
- Subsequent to the change in the admissions standard for science, convene a P-12/higher education working group to consider criteria for rigorous STE courses (including criteria for what constitutes a lab-based course) and over time build a repository of exemplar courses. This should include a review of any next generation P-12 science standards and their implications for teaching, learning and assessment. This approach will provide quality assurance to future students, schools and admissions officers.