A Trial List of Objectives of Experimental Work in Science Education

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English Teaching science nowadays includes more teaching of experimental methods than it formerly did, and this trend may well continue. Teaching experimental methods means teaching how to solve problems in an experimental way, which is quite different from teaching the laws and facts of science. The need for a list of practical objectives has existed in the past and will be felt, more and more, in the future. An attempt to construct new lists for the three sciences was made by staff members of CITO, the Dutch Institute for Educational Measurement, specially, though not only, for the purpose of assessment. Intended characteristics of the lists are exhaustiveness; restriction to cognitive and psycho‐motor skills and abilities; formulation in terms of observable pupil behaviour; specification up to four levels; and identity for physics and chemistry up to three levels.

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