ABSTRACT
The bibliographic efforts were coalesced into a single bibliography kept by Reinders Duit and his colleagues at the Institute for Science Education at the University of Kiel in Germany. This bibliography, Students' and Teachers' Conceptions in Science, contains 6,413 entries. The National Research Council, responsible for the development of the National Science Education Standards in conjunction with the professional societies, and the professional societies are unanimous in supporting inquiry-based instruction in science as superior to what is often called direct instruction. The truly dangerous aspect of the neoliberal agenda is the forced institutionalization of the schools into an elitist-realist box via, among other mechanisms, utterly meaningless, factoid-driven high-stakes testing. A little effort motivating the few deserving students is the only thing a teacher can do other than presenting the established canon to be learned in science. Starting in 2007, to meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requirements, states must test for achievement in science annually.
