The Materials Science Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the theory was explained in the Students’ Book. The experiments were described in a separate file. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the...

Like its predecessors, the Students' Book of the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry contained instructions for practical work, interpretations of the experiments, background reading, and questions to help students develop their understanding of chemical ideas.

All topics had several features in...

The Teachers’ Guide for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry took the form of a loose-leaf file. The contents provided all the information needed by teachers and technicians. Each Topic started with a summary of content, estimates of the teaching time...

The popular biochemistry special study was revised and updated for the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. Biochemistry was first published as a special study in 1970, in a book of 166 pages with seven pages on DNA. Even in the second edition, published in...

The popular food science special study was revised and updated for the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. The food science special study had been in existence since 1971, and was extensively revised in 1984. The changes in this edition continued to reflect...

Since the publication of the first edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry in 1970, the importance of metals relative to other materials had diminished. This was been reflected in the development of the special study as the title had changed from ‘Metallurgy’, first to ‘Metals as materials’ and then, for the third...

The Mineral Process Chemistry special study was originally published by the Mineral Industry Manpower and Careers Unit (MIMCU) in 1980 as a supplement to the studies published earlier by the Nuffield Foundation. In the first revision of the course, in 1984, this title was incorporated into the project’s list of...

Like its predecessors, the students' book of the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry contained instructions for practical work, interpretations of the experiments, background reading, and questions to help students develop their understanding of chemical ideas. All topics had several features in common...

In the third edition of the teachers’ guide for Nuffield Advanced Chemistry, each topic started with a summary of content, estimates of the teaching time needed, and teaching objectives. Most sections of topics also included a suggested treatment which was a guide to teaching the material, and there were answers to...

This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry programmed text was devised as an introduction to organic chemistry. It was offered as an alternative treatment to part of Topic 9 of the basic course. The optional work in Part two of the programme includes useful background work for parts of Topic 13, and elementary ideas on...

The Nuffield Chemistry team worked with the then London Board to develop new styles of assessment to support new approaches to teaching and learning in science first at O-level and then at A-level. Many of the approaches adopted in the 1960s have stood the test of time...

This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry programmed text was devised as an introduction to organic nomenclature at a time when the use of systematic IUPAC names in schools was new. This programme was intended for use as an aid to introducing organic chemistry, either as preliminary work before starting Topic 9 or during...

The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry resources were developed at a time when there was considerable interest in programmed learning. The team decided to experiment with a limited range of programmed texts. An introduction to the Programmed Texts is provided in Appendix 6 of ...

Towards the end of the Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course students undertook one Special Study, during which they could apply the principles studied in the basic course to new contexts. Five special studies were developed dealing with biochemistry, chemical engineering...

The Chemist in Action was designed to give students a more complete picture of the work of the technologist in a number of carefully selected areas than could be provided in the Student Books. In particular its aims were:
*to provide examples in the modern chemical...