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Assessing Ethics in Secondary Science

This report, published in 2009, is based on a seminar held in London in 2008 at the Nuffield Foundation. It discusses why teaching ethics in science is important and examines approaches to the assessment of ethics in science considering key issues, such as the importance of ethical debate in science classes, the specifications which drive the teaching of ethics, and how science can learn from the assessment of ethics in other subjects.

It also looks at the challenges currently facing curriculum providers, examiners and science teachers in teaching and assessing philosophical principles and moral values in what has traditionally been a fact-based subject.

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