Commissioned by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, this Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment review of teacher assessment in 2009 looked at teacher assessment in practice in a number of countries to see what works best and to consider the implications for Assessing Pupils’ Progress (APP...

The original Nuffield O-level Biology texts were published in the mid-1960s. About ten years later the texts and guides were revised following an evaluation of the materials.

Many teachers who had experience of using the materials contributed to the evaluation...

Revised Nuffield Biology combined into single volumes the Student Texts and Teachers’ Guides for the first and second years of the original course. This revised teachers' guide for the first two years of the...

The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the third year of the five-year course to O-level. The revision was based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original edition. Extra...

The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the  fourth year  of the five-year course to O-level. The revision was based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original edition. Extra help in the teachers’ guide included: *...

The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the fifth year of the five-year course to O-level. The revision was based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original edition. Extra help in the teachers’ guide included: *indications...

The Nuffield Chemistry course for students aged 11-16 was first published in 1966. By 1971 the materials had been well tried in many schools. Dr Richard Ingle was appointed to prepare a second edition of the resources in the light of all the feedback from teachers....

The original Stage I of Nuffield Chemistry was well received by teachers and so the revision made no significant changes to the content and teaching methods. As in the first edition, two alternative schemes were offered by Revised Nuffield Chemistry Stage I.

The schemes differed more in flavour than in...

Studies leading to the revision of Nuffield Chemistry showed that the introduction of topics that had seemed revolutionary in the mid-60s (such a structure, rates, energy changes and chemical equilibrium) had been widely accepted as desirable. However, the research...

The revision of Stage III of Revised Nuffield Chemistry put more emphasis on applied, social and historical aspects of chemistry. This was in response to feedback from teachers that the original version of Stage III included too many academic options that overlapped...

The Laboratory Investigation sheets for Stage 1A and...

The Laboratory Investigation sheets for Stage II of...

The Handbook for Pupils was one of the main innovations of Revised Nuffield Chemistry. It was written in response to the many requests from teachers for more support for students in the form of a textbook.

The book...

The revision of Nuffield Chemistry replaced the Stage I Background Books of the first edition of Nuffield Chemistry with twelve short study sheets. The sheets were printed in colour on folded papers that were punched ready for student files.

The aim of the sheets was to...

Revised Nuffield Chemistry Teachers’ Guide I incorporated much of the experience fed back from teachers in the light of experience. The purposes of the teaching in each topic were made clearer. The text of the revised experiment sheets was incorporated into the teacher...