THE NATURE OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS DOCUMENTS

n recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the role of language competences for
science education in school as a prerequisite for learners to benefit fully from the curriculum and to
participate in situations with a science dimension outside of school. Learning science does not only
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The Dimensional Metrology Group, and its predecessors at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards) have been involved in
documenting the science of gauge block calibration almost continuously since the seminal work
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course as the most diffi cult one in their undergraduate curriculum. Although part of the
diffi culty may be related to how food engineering is taught, much of the diffi culty with
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Foreword
We are at the start of a revolution in molecular science that will more profoundly
change our lives, our culture, indeed, our world than did the Industrial Revolution a
century ago. From the human genome project, the largest natural product characteri
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This book began to emerge in 1985, based on the wisdom of my original guru in Finland,
Jean Margaret Perttunen (1916—). Peggy’s book, The Words Between, during decades in which
she offered me specific advice, taught me about Finnish scientists’ problems in writing in English.

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The technical committees responsible for ACI committee reports and standards strive to avoid ambiguities,
omissions, and errors in these documents. In spite of these efforts, the users of ACI documents occasionally
find information or requirements that may be subject to more than one interpretation[r]

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