GCSE formative assessment tasks

By Trevor Critchley2012-09-01T00:00:00

Combining the reviews of the 'GCSE formative assessment tasks' textbooks,Trevor Critchley provides a comprehensive view of these teaching resources, their strengths and weaknesses, and how best to utilise them

These books provide a wealth of good quality off-the-shelf resources, with twelve tasks for each of Core and Additional Science, covering ideas from the major topics common to all three main examination boards. Students are generally asked to write a short report to demonstrate their understanding of a topic.

Each of the sciences has one webquest which provides links to useful information and video clips from the Badger Science website, where you can access free sample pages. A short PowerPoint presentation introduces each task, along with a starter activity and a suggested structure for the report. The books include all of the files on a CD, along with SCORM versions for use with a VLE.

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