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Technology Education Standards in the United States: History and Rationale

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In the international arena, the United States has a strong history of standards for the study of technology. Content, student assessment, professional development, and program standards have been developed for technology education and other disciplines such as mathematics, social studies, instructional technology, and science explicitly have technology standards within their respective sets of standards.

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    Philip Anthony Reed

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  1. Department of Science Education and Communication, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Marc J. de Vries

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    John Williams

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Reed, P.A. (2018). Technology Education Standards in the United States: History and Rationale. In: de Vries, M. (eds) Handbook of Technology Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44687-5_9

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