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All rights reserved.\nWhy do we do practical work in schools?\nIndirect assessment of practical skills in GCSE and A-level sciences\nWhat we assess\nHow we assess it\nStudent performance on practical questions.\nThe cookbook problem of ‘the scientific method’\nIntroducing Project Calibrate\nWhat’s Brandon’s Matrix?\nHelping widen student experience in practical lessons\n2\nWhy do we do practical work in schools?\nTo support and consolidate science knowledge and understanding.\nTo develop investigative skills.\nTo build mastery of practical skills for future study or work.\nTo encourage inquisitiveness.\n3\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nIndirect assessment of practical skills\nAt least 15% of marks assess the skills and understanding gained through doing practical work.\nPractical skills criteria (A-level)/Working scientifically criteria (GCSE).\nKnowledge and understanding of the apparatus and techniques criteria.\nAll three assessment objectives (AOs).\nAppropriate maths skills such as plotting and interpreting graphs.\nFamiliar and unfamiliar contexts.\nKnowledge of subject content through a practical context.\n4\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nA-level practical skills criteria\n5\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nA-level apparatus and techniques criteria\n6\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nGCSE working scientifically criteria\nWS2: Experimental skills and strategies\nWS2.4 Carrying out experiments appropriately, accurately and safely\nWS2.6 Making and recording observations and measurements\nWS3: Analysis and evaluation\nWS3.1 Presenting observations and other data appropriately\nWS3.2 Translating data from one form to another\nWS3.3 Carrying out and representing mathematical and statistical analysis\nWS3.8 Communicating the scientific rationale for investigations, methods used, findings and reasoned conclusions through paper-based and electronic reports and presentations\n7\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nGCSE apparatus and techniques criteria\n8\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nPractical skills assessment and the AOs\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n9\nAO1: demonstration of knowledge and understanding\nknowledge of practical techniques, use of correct apparatus, safe working\ncarrying out basic methods such as dilutions, titrations, setting up electrical circuits\nknowledge of scientific content in a practical context.\nAO2: application of knowledge and understanding\nquestions based on methods or experiments students have not done\nthe point of these questions is to assess their ability to apply knowledge and skills.\nAO3: analysis and evaluation\nstudents will be given experimental data to analyse and evaluate\nnot always in the context of a practical they have done themselves but the skills they have gained through their learning will enable them to answer the questions\nrefining practical design and procedures or developing/planning practical procedures to solve problems.\nPractical skills questions\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n10\nWrite/describe a method.\nIdentify risks and hazards and suggest ways of avoiding or mitigating them.\nUnderstand and identify control, dependent and independent variables.\nIdentify and explain errors.\nSuggest improvements to a method.\nRead measurements.\nRecord experimental data appropriately.\nInterpret data.\nDraw conclusions from experimental information.\nComment on validity of procedures.\nSuggest a hypothesis.\nMake predictions about observations or results.\nStudent performance on practical questions\nCopyright © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n11\nPerformance on practical questions this summer and in past exams shows that students can’t ","cbCaidqD40Lr1CaJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidqD40Lr1CaJ","pptx",2168014,"English","# Focus of today’s session\n## Why do we do practical work in schools?\n## Indirect assessment of practical skills\n## Practical skills assessment and the AOs\n## Practical skills questions\n## Student performance on practical questions\n## Introducing Project Calibrate\n## The “cookbook problem” of “the” scientific method","[{\"question\":\"What kinds of questions test practical skills during assessment?\",\"answer\":\"Students are asked to write or describe methods, identify variables and risks, interpret and record data, draw conclusions, comment on validity, and suggest improvements, hypotheses, and predictions based on observations or results.\"}]","ASE 2023 - Reinvigorating the learning experience during practical lessons - Focus of today’s session | PPTX",76]