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Assessment of Practical Work for the GCSE
Assessment of Practical Work for the GCSE was written in the early days of the GCSE qualification as a guide to teachers at a time when they were becoming responsible for more of the summative assessment of student performance. The book was part of a series about assessment commissioned by the Nuffield-Chelsea Curriculum Trust.
The book was written to help teachers respond to the challenges of assessing practical work in science. It dealt mainly with the GCSE assessments operating at the time but included much that was, and is, relevant to the assessment of science practical work in any context.
The book points out that assessment in not an exact science. All measurements are unreliable and measurements of human abilities are more unreliable than most.
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1. Philosophy
2. Teaching aims and assessment objectives
3. Ground rules
4. What to look for
5. Criteria for awarding marks
6. Course planning and laboratory organisation
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