Offers a rationale for science education that utilizes a science-technology-society (STS) framework. The recommended STS framework can give meaning to efforts to define a K-12 science curriculum, to describe appropriate teaching behaviors and desirable student actions, and to formulate meaningful research questions. (JN)

The author criticizes brief, vague educational goals and advocates broad, unambiguous objectives stated in terms of student behavior. (CP)

This paper traces the historical attention problem solving has received as a major curriculum goal from the Dewey School of 1896 to the 1970's. (MN)

Examined are objectives written by elementary, junior high, and high school teacher committees while developing and revising science curricula for their schools. The objectives were examined for classification into the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Research methods, data, results, and implications of the research are discussed. (CW)