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Assessment of Achievement Programme:
Report of the Sixth AAP Survey of Science (2003)
Footnotes
1. Environmental Studies: Society, Science and
Technology. 5-14 National Guidelines. Learning and Teaching
Scotland, 2000.
2. Dickson, R. & Flood, W. Report of the Fifth
Survey of Science (1999). Scottish Executive Education
Department, 2000.
3. Environmental Studies 5-14: Science. Science
Assessment. Part 1: Knowledge and Understanding. Part II:
Practical Skills in Science. Faculty of Curriculum Studies,
University of Aberdeen. Manual and exemplification tasks
submitted to the Scottish Executive Education Department,
2002.
4. Report on the First Survey of Social Subjects
(2002). Scottish Executive Education Department, 2004
5. Information and Communications Technology.
National Guidelines 5-14. Glasgow: Learning & Teaching
Scotland, 2000.
6. Environmental Studies: Society, Science and
Technology. 5-14 National Guidelines. Learning and Teaching
Scotland, 2000.
7. Environmental Studies 5-14: Science. Science
Assessment. Part 1: Knowledge and Understanding. Part II:
Practical Skills in Science. Department of Curriculum
Studies, University of Aberdeen. Manual and exemplification
tasks submitted to the Scottish Executive Education
Department, 2002.
8. In practice, the 'percentage correct' was rarely
65%, given that this percentage rarely corresponded with
whole integers on the variable mark scales for the
different sets of 12 tasks. For example, '65% correct' on a
15-mark scale would be 9.75 marks, but pupils could only
achieve marks of 9 (60%) or 10 (67%), never 9.75. Cut-off
marks varied from one task set to another, depending on the
total number of marks the tasks concerned merited, and a
generous interpretation of achievement was adopted here, in
that in every case decimal cut-off marks were rounded down.
On the 15-mark scale the cut-off score applied would
therefore be 9 marks, and not 10.
9. Information and Communications Technology.
National Guidelines 5-14. Learning and Teaching Scotland,
2000.
10. Johnson, S. & Bell, J. Pupils' scientific
interests and attitudes. Chapter 3 in Archenhold, F. et
al., Science at age 15. A review of APU Survey Findings
1980-84. London: HMSO, 1988.
11. In the 2001 survey of English Language, cut-of
scores of 50%, 65% and 80% were agreed by subject
specialists as appropriate indicators of 'basic skills',
'secure attainment' and 'considerable strengths' at a
level. These general criteria were applied here, with
minimal adjustment to allow for integer mark
correspondences.
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