ABSTRACT

The Nuffield Foundation developed a general policy for the production of visual aids when work on the projects got under way early in 1963. Within this policy the Chemistry Project planned to provide films, film loops, charts and models. The science teachers panels had been only too aware of the need for a new type of examination and of the formidable issues that still remained to be solved in its administration. High priority was therefore given by the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project to a successful marrying of schemes with examinations and tests of all kinds, including homework questions, and to the establishment of close working relationships between the Teams Examination Groups on the one hand and the GCE examining boards and Secondary School Examinations Council on the other. Speaking at a conference in 1972, Halliwell drew upon his experience as a curriculum developer to reflect upon processes of change in science education.