Teaching science process skills: long‐term effects on science achievement |
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| Authors: | Peter F W Preece Peter N Brotherton |
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| Institution: | School of Education , University of Exeter , UK |
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| Abstract: | Abstract In this follow‐up study to Brotherton and Preece (1996), the long‐term effects of teaching science with a special emphasis on process skills with Year 7, 8, and 9 classes were investigated. In a value‐added analysis, a positive effect of the intervention on Year 8 males was found on examining subsequent GCSE science results. (The GCSE‐‐General Certificate of Secondary Education‐‐is a public examination taken by pupils in England and Wales at the end of Year 11.) This finding was interpreted in terms of the particular ‘readiness’ of this group to enculturation into practices involved in teaching and assessment at the GCSE level. |
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