Have a couple minutes to give our #DigCit student blogs feedback on the results of us Googling ourselves? Thank you! Please RT. https://t.co/KrEbQ0MtSL#asechat
Not so much a who but a what for me. My parents owned a newsagents and so we would get NewScientist, I started reading it at a very young age and became fascinated. Every time it would arrive my parents would give me a copy and it grew from there..#asechat#TwinklTeach
Hey, would anyone have any recs for literature on student’s ideas about “fundamental” building blocks of matter (e.g. what they are taught/consider to be fundamental at that time and ideas/misconceptions around that)? #ASEchat#EdChat#CogSciSci#science#STEM#teaching
i still find it astonishing that over 1/4 of candidates get a 8+. Shows that there are lots of good science teachers out there and lots of talented students. #asechat
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Not a physicist - how can I make 4 types of radiation (alpha, beta, gamma, positron) slightly less boring? Can’t cope with being stood at the front lecturing it. Top set year 11 #ASEChat#ukedchat
Some half a million spent over summer to explain the new system. Had one student with an 87 for her combined science - was a stop/start celebration - Is that marks? Grade 8-7? would have been nice if some of that half million went on putting a dash between the numbers... #asechat
i still find it astonishing that over 1/4 of candidates get a 8+. Shows that there are lots of good science teachers out there and lots of talented students. #asechat
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@ViciaScience, @TwinklScience, @twinklresources
Overheard some worrying comments especially from parents about the new GCSE grades, lots of converting to old grades, and 'why didn’t they make it out of 10?' #asechat
Well I remember we had two same grades in the past which is probably simplest and most descriptive. Not sure how to feel about a say, 7-6. But guess it depends if you are a glass-half-full person or not. #ASEchat
No live feed planned from regional conferences as they can be expensive to set up, so economics does not work. But we can ask popular workshops to be written up in EiS or SSR #ASEChat
I think the additional granularity of 17 point scale is for the convenience of analysis (accountability) rather than the convenience of the student #ASEChat
Not so much the grade boundaries I find difficult but the setting of questions that more or less prevents students achieving the majority of marks available on the paper. Must be soul destroying to be an 'average' kid yet know you have not answered many qus in exam #ASEChat
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One problem with 'close grade boundaries' is that errors in marking have a magnified effect. There is always wobble round the edges of a grade, so move the edges apart? #ASEChat
Are you making a distinction between combined science and biology + physics + chemistry? Whilst BPC exists, students doing Comb Sc will feel inferior in A level classes #ASEChat
In a nutshell I would like to see less breadth and more depth. We need to make time for developing thinking and techniques as well as acquiring knowledge #ASEChat
I assume that those who are put in for combined, some wouldn't pursue the Sciences at A-Level? I'd like to see some figures for that to see if that was the case. #ASEChat#TwinklTeach
I would like to see more progression from KS2 to A level in practical science and investigative approaches as well as subject knowledge. They cannot be separated out and tight independently #ASEChat
Read Aspires 2 report containing quotes from children moved from BPC to science and who give up on a career in science as they no longer feel up to it #ASEChat
