Science education reports: Teaching and Learning
This collection of STEM educational reports, produced by a number of organisations, concern the teaching and learning of science. The reports include:
*Physics in schools IV: supply and retention of teachers - This report looks at specialist physics teacher supply and retention in English schools.
*Physics in schools III: bucking the trend - This report sets out to identify how some schools are increasing participation in Post-16 physics whilst the general trend is for a seemingly inexorable decline in physics education.
*Physics in schools and colleges: teacher deployment and student outcomes - This report looks at the deployment of teachers and its impact on student outcomes.
*Science education in schools: issues, evidence and proposals - This report looks at issues around improving science education in schools.
* Big Picture teaching resource: Reviewing how teachers, educationalists and young people access and use classroom resources - This report, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, evaluates Big Picture, its free publication on bioscience, and explored ways in which it could be developed.
*The teaching of social and ethical issues in the school curriculum, arising from developments in biomedical research: a research study of teachers.
*Primary science survey report - This report presents the findings of an online survey during July 2011 for The Wellcome Trust.
*Primary science in the UK: a scoping study - This report seeks to establish an overview of the current status of primary science in the UK with particular reference to strengths and weaknesses in specific focus areas.
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Educating the Next Generation of Scientists
This report was published by the National Audit Office in 2010 and evaluates progress by the Department for Education in increasing take-up and achievement in maths and science up to age 18. It also reviews the extent to which specific programmes to raise the quality of school science facilities, recruit and retain...
Benchmarks for Secondary Schools
This document, published by SCORE, provides guidance to schools and colleges on the resourcing expectations of practical work in the sciences, to ensure all students receive a well-rounded science education.
It provides a comprehensive list of the levels of resourcing that SCORE considers necessary to carry...
Benchmarks for Primary Schools
This document, published by SCORE (Science Community Representing Education), provides guidance to primary schools on the resources needed to carry out practical work, to ensure that all children receive a well-rounded science education. The benchmarks show the levels of resourcing that SCORE considers necessary to...
School Leader and Teacher Insights into Learning Outside the Classroom in Natural Environments
This document, published in 2012, reports on a study of 38 teachers and school leaders in primary, secondary and special schools with widely varying levels of outdoor learning. It focuses on their views of outdoor learning and their ideas about the Natural Connections Demonstration Project.
The Natural...