We acknowledge our Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) collaborators in the development of the student and teacher materials and professional development: Janet Carlson, Brook Bourdelat-Parks, Elaine Howes, Rebecca Kruse, Kathy Roth, Aleigh Raffelson, Kerry Skaradznski, Rhiannon Baxter, Stacey Luce, and Chris Moraine. We thank Project 2061 staff members Jean Flanagan, for her contribution to the development of the curricular unit and the assessments, and Martin Fernandez, Bernard Koch, and Caitlin Klein for their help in scoring the written explanations. We also thank the pilot and field-test teachers for participating in our studies and providing helpful feedback. The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through grant R305A100714 to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the institute or the U.S. Department of Education. Visit www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/THSBSummaryBooklet-F.pdf for more information about the THBS unit. To request electronic copies of the student and teacher editions, contact Project 2061 at [email protected].
