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What is SSR?
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SSR is a highly regarded periodical,
produced quarterly. Contributions may
be requested or unsolicited and are written
by a wide range of people with an interest
in science education including teachers,
academics, and scientists. All contributions
are refereed. SSR occupies a unique niche
between academic and professional journals
in UK science education 11-18.
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SSR was first published in June 1919 and published
its 300th issue in March 2001 . It is a quarterly journal
(but it was published with only three issues a year
for 27 volumes from October 1941 until June 1968). At
first SSR was a journal intended for public and grammar
school science masters and mistresses. As science was
taught to a wider range of the population in different
types of schools, formal teacher training increased,
and finally the ASE was created from the men's and women's
science teacher associations, SSR grew, and changed
and developed the types and topics of articles and notes
it published.
At present it comprises 128/144 pages, B5 in size, with
a card colour cover. SSR has a print run of 17000,
which is sent to all national and international secondary
members of the ASE, with 1000 copies to libraries in,
mainly, teacher training institutions worldwide. It
is indexed and abstracted in the Educational Resources
Information Center (ERIC) and the British Educational
Index (BEI). Its ISSN is 0036-6811.
The ASE is a registered charity (no. 313123) and a non-profit
making, educational association. SSR is not for
public sale and is only available by library subscription
or personal subscription of ASE members.
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The aims of SSR
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SSR, for many, is the main benefit of being an ASE
member and reading SSR, for many, is the main, if not
only, way of staying informed. It is an important source for
professional and curriculum development. Reading SSR
is a form of ASE activism and readers are engaged and involved
in the work of science teachers and the ASE. SSR should
be an organ through which ASE members, engaged in the 11-19
phase, can communicate professional ideas by being an author
and/or a reader.
SSR, along with meetings and the administration of
the ASE, is an important part of the 'glue' that holds the
membership together. It aims to
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inform readers of innovations and developments, small
and big, in science education
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develop readers' knowledge and practice of science
education
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disseminate research and scholarship relevant to readers'
subject and pedagogic knowledge in and about science
education
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Who Reads SSR?
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Our main readership is ASE members who are science teachers
in 11-19 education in the UK. These teachers work in the independent
and maintained sectors in all types of schools. The ASE also
has technician and corporate members. Many ordinary secondary
members work in colleges and universities particularly in
science teacher education and science education research.
SSR also has a significant international audience
through library and personal subscriptions. It is read across
the world particularly in anglophone countries and the Commonwealth
and increasingly in higher education in EU countries such
as Spain, Portugal and Greece.
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What is in SSR?
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SSR has always been a journal with a wide variety
of articles about developments in science and technology,
the history of science, science teaching, and science educational
research. The proportions of each of these may have varied
but all forms are still extant. SSR has always carried teaching
and apparatus notes, advertisements for apparatus, books,
audio-visual aids, etc., and reviews of books, films, tapes
and now ICT and the internet.
There are approximately 12 substantive articles and 12 Science
Notes per issue. In addition book, ICT and web reviews can
occupy approx. 15 pages. If each article/note is refereed
by three referees then that entails approx. 300 reviews p.a.
to write and process.
In addition, SSR publishes correspondence to the editor
and informative items in a section called Notes and News.
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How and when is SSR distributed and disseminated?
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How and when is SSR distributed and disseminated?
Volumes run for academic years. Each of the four issues p.a.
is consecutively numbered. SSR is posted to subscribers in
September, December, March and June of each year. Each September
issue has a full set of Notes for Contributors; each June
issue has the indexes (author, title and subject) for that
volume.
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