Introduction: research matters?
1. Strategies for learning / Robert Fairbrother
2. Formative assessment / Paul Black and Chris Harrison
3. Children's thinking, learning, teaching and constructivism / John Leach and Philip Scott
4. role of practical work / Rod Watson
5. nature of scientific knowledge / Martin Monk and Justin Dillon
6. role of language in the learning and teaching of science / Carys Jones
7. Students' attitudes towards science / Shirley Simon
8. Managing the science department / Justin Dillon
9. Summative assessment / Julian Swain
10. Science teaching and the development of intelligence / Philip Adey
11. Progression and differentiation / Chris Harrison, Shirley Simon and Rod Watson
12. Information and communications technologies: their role and value for science education / Margaret Cox
13. GNVQ Science at Advanced level: a new kind of course / Joan Solomon and Sally Johnson
14. Science for citizenship / Jonathan Osborne.
