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Towards the end of the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course, students made a four week study of a science that was based on chemical principles. The principal purpose of this section of the course was to enable students to see something of the scope of a related subject, and to appreciate its dependence upon...
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Surface Chemistry
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry, and...
There were eighteen topics in Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry divided into two, corresponding to the two years of a post-16 A-level course.
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Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Topics 1-11
Teachers’ Guide I and Students’ Book I of Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry covered the eleven topics which constituted the work suggested for the first year of the course.
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Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Topics 12-18
Teachers’ Guide II and Students’ Book II of Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry covered the seven topics which constituted the work suggested for the second year of the course. Students were also expected to work though one Special Study.
...The Nuffield Foundation revised and republished Nuffield Advanced Physics in 1985. The original carefully-thought-through structure of the course was retained but there were significant changes in the form of the published resources.
The project decided to...
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Examinations and Investigations
In the Nuffield Advanced Physics course, published by the Nuffield Foundation, the original authors were keenly aware of the need to design an end-of-course examination that was not only technically 'reliable' but was also 'valid', in that it tested the stated aims of...
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Students’ Guide 1: Units A to G
The Revised Nuffield Physics Students Guides were not textbooks. They included for each unit:
*Summaries - very short accounts giving the most important ideas of each part of the course.
*Readings - short passages which depend on the ideas developed in the...
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Students’ Guide 2: Units H to L
Published by the Nuffield Foundation the Revised Nuffield Physics Students Guides were not textbooks.
They included for each unit:
*Summaries - very short accounts giving the most important ideas of each part of the course.
*Readings - short passages...
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Teachers’ Guide 1: Units A to G
The Revised Advanced Nuffield Physics included a plan summarising the relationship of the work to topics covered earlier for each of the units. The guidance offered many teaching suggestions, including details of the suggested experiments and demonstrations. There were...