UK Improving Primary Science Guidance Report 2023: Analysis and Enlightenments

Siyang Liu; Hanlin Dong

doi:10.54097/wn3j4w61

Authors

Siyang Liu
Hanlin Dong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/wn3j4w61

Keywords:

Science education guidance, Scientific core literacy, Teaching model, Teaching evaluation and feedback, Educational development.

Abstract

In 2023, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) of the UK released a new primary science education guidance. This study summarizes the core concepts and methods of this guidance into six points: remedial teaching, collaborative teaching, procedural teaching, situational teaching, feedback evaluation, and continuous development, and analyzes each point in detail. Then, combining the analysis of China’s national conditions and the status of primary science education, it discusses the enlightening significance of the UK guidance for China’s primary science education reform from the perspective of “six powers” including students’ communication and expression skills, scientific inquiry skills, information evaluation skills, and teachers’ reflection and improvement skills, lifelong learning skills, and resource mining skills.

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