Science

Aim: To improve pupil engagement with learning and reduce the extent of low-level disruption in lessons, to develop pupils understanding of national curriculum levels through the use of peer assessment and to enhance their ability to set targets and to use peer-assessed assessment for learning activities as a means of delivering content.

Aim: To assess whether students' performance in science could be improved by increasing their self-esteem and generating positive support and feedback from their follow students.

Aim: Many curricula include information about seeing, hearing and smelling, and an appreciation of these senses is related to an understanding of the behaviour of light, sound and gases. The National Curriculum for England requires sound to be taught in Year 5 and seeing to be taught in Year 6. It states that pupils should be taught that vibrations from sound sources require a medium through which to travel to the ear and that we see things only when light from them enters the eye.

Aim: To ascertain whether computers can improve the results of students in a Year 10 science programme and whether students in other subjects can benefit.