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Table 3.1 Estimated percentages of adults qualifying as civically
scientifically literate by country/area 56
Table 3.2 Categories of salient information in media reports 64
Table 3.3 Table showing the possible risks of men dying in the UK at the
age of 40 66
Table 5.1 Comparison of carrots with and without Growcaro fertilizer 98
Table 6.1 Kerr’s aims of practical work (as used by Beatty and
Woolnough, 1982a) 111
Table 7.1 Difficult words in science 141
Table 7.2 A brief summary of directed activities related to text (DARTS) 150
Table 9.1 Mean project scores of the experiment and control groups 188
Table 10.1 Framework for looking at summative assessment 213
Table 10.2 The national results for Key Stage 2 Science, percentage of all
children, boys and girls achieving greater than levels 4 and 5
between 2003 to 2008 218
Table 10.3 Subject pair analysis for A-level physics and another subject 221
Table 10.4 Differences in the percentage of A–C grades awarded
between boys and girls at advanced level in the three A-level
Sciences, 2004–08 222
Table 10.5 Percentage of candidates achieving grades in Science (Double
award), 2000–07 223
Table 10.6 Variation in percentage of grades A–C and grade A for the
GCE A-level Science Examinations, 2008 224
Table 10.7 Scores from the TIMSS grade 8 test survey based on overall
mean score for the science assessment 227
Table 10.8 Scores from the PISA 2006 test survey based on overall mean
score for the science assessment 230
Table 11.1 The top five items boys would like to learn about in science
and the top five for girls 253