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School Science Review 365 Epistemic Insight & New GCSEs

Editor Geoff Auty

Issue 365 | Published June 2017

Overview

June 2017 (Issue 365) This issue pulls together articles focusing on two very different themes "Teaching and learning about epistemic insight" and the "New GCSEs". Covering everything from qualification reform to how students describe science and scientists.

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Contents

p.7 Qualification reform, a two-way conversation': follow-up to a presentation by Ofqual staff at the ASE Annual Conference 2017

p.9 Some thoughts about words and numbers in science

p.12 Keeping a finger on the pulse: assessment and tracking

p.15 More content and more depth: coping with new GCSEs

p.20 Biology practicals that work: SAPS drop-in sessions at the ASE Annual Conference 2017

p.25 Caught ya! A school-based practical activity to evaluate the capture mark release recapture method

p.31 PISA 2015: findings and some implications for UK science education

p.41 The Big Build

p.47 Optimal learning in schools theoretical evidence: Part 4 Metacognition

p.57 Theme editorial: Epistemic insight: teaching and learning about the nature of science in real-world and multidisciplinary arenas

p.59 Teaching and learning about epistemic insight

p.65 Changing science education to meet the demands of a changing society

p.71 Understanding how science works: the nature of science as the foundation for science teaching and learning

p.77 Teaching about nature of science in secondary education: a view from multicultural classrooms

p.85 The relevance of science in a'black box' technological world

p.91 Models, matter and truth in doing and learning science

p.99 Bella's beetle: approaching bioscience practice from its silent kinaesthetic and affective side

p.109 Variation in graphing practices between mathematics and science: implications for science teaching

p.116 Real science, real classrooms

p.118 Building 'science capital' in the classroom

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