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Assessment of Performance in Practical Science and Pupil Attributes
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Roberts, Ros; Gott, Richard – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 2006
Performance assessment in the UK science General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) currently relies on pupil reports of their investigations. These are widely criticized. Written tests of procedural understanding could be used as an alternative, but what exactly do they measure? This paper describes small-scale research in which there was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Research, Student Characteristics