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Physics in Schools III: Bucking the Trend
Produced by the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER), this report sets out to identify how some schools are increasing participation in post-16 physics whilst the general trend is for a seemingly inexorable decline in physics education. Authors Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson, looked at A level physics uptake in comprehensive schools. The report details proposals to policy-makers, initial teacher training institutions and advice to schools wishing to increase participation at A level. Features of schools which had been able to achieve this included:
• a strong and clear-sighted head of physics
• a team of well-qualified and enthusiastic physics teachers
• a well-structured curriculum with the emphasis on student success
• physics is taught as physics, with the A level teachers teaching from at least Year Nine, so the pupils can develop confidence in themselves and in their physics teachers.
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