Assessing experimental science in 11-18 education...
Issue 269 | Page 13 | Published Sep 2017
Description
A conference on this issue run by the Royal Society and supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, held on 12th October 2016, was set up specially to try and refocus the science and assessment communities on the possibilities there might be in the future to assess experimental science in a way that more closely matches the opportunities that science learning could offer in today's classrooms.
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