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About Rodger Bybee

Rodger W. Bybee, Ph.D., is director emeritus of BSCS. Prior to joining BSCS, he was executive director of the National Research Council’s Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (CSMEE) in Washington, D.C. Between 1986 and 1995, he was associate director of BSCS. He participated in the development of the National Science Education Standards, and from 1993 to 1995 he chaired the content working group of that National Research Council project.

At BSCS, he was principal investigator for four new National Science Foundation (NSF) programs: an elementary school program entitled Science for Life and Living: Integrating Science, Technology, and Health; a middle school program entitled Middle School Science & Technology; a high school biology program titled Biological Science: A Human Approach; and a college program titled Biological Perspectives. His work at BSCS also includes serving as principal investigator for programs to develop curriculum frameworks for teaching about the history and nature of science and technology for biology education at high schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges, and curriculum reform based on national standards.

From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Bybee chaired the curriculum and instruction study panel for the National Center for Improving Science Education (NCISE). From 1972 to 1985, he was professor of education at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He has been active in education for more than thirty years, having taught science at the elementary, junior and senior high school, and college levels.

Dr. Bybee has written widely, publishing in both education and psychology. He is co-author of a leading textbook titled Teaching Secondary School Science: Strategies for Developing Scientific Literacy. His most recent book is Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purposes to Practices, published in1997.

Over the years, he has received awards as a Leader of American Education and an Outstanding Educator in America, and in 1979, was Outstanding Science Educator of the Year. In 1989, he was recognized as one of the 100 outstanding alumni in the history of the University of Northern Colorado. Dr. Bybee’s biography has been included in the Golden Anniversary 50th Edition of Who’s Who in America. In April 1998, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) presented Dr. Bybee with the NSTA’s Distinguished Service to Science Education Award.