The Association for Science Education Conference (ASE)
Every year, we attend the Annual Science Education Conference (ASE) where we present a number of AQA led sessions that can support your teaching. Here, you can access resources and find out more about our presentations:
- January 2022
As part of Europe’s largest science education continuing professional development (CPD) conference, we presented a selection of AQA led sessions, covering a wide range of topics.The resources for these sessions will be available to download soon.
New assessment training packs
We’ve created five self-guided, modular training packs that will help you bring out the best in your students. The packs give you the opportunity to upskill your science department and gain an in-depth understanding of our GCSE assessments.
- January 2020
The resources from the presentations at the 2020 ASE Conference are as follows:
- GCSE Science 2019 – key messages to support development
- ‘Gender in GCSE science’ research
- Focus on AO2
- Support for your first years in teaching
- A-level student performance in practical work related items
- Why questions are not graded 1–9
- GCSE science networking hubs
- Top 10 questions people ask us.
New assessment training packs
We’ve created five self-guided, modular training packs that will help you bring out the best in your students. The packs give you the opportunity to upskill your science department and gain an in-depth understanding of our GCSE assessments.
- January 2019
The presentations from the 2019 ASE presentations are as follows:
- Looking forward to 2023: Research projects to support future planning
- AQA and ITE: Support for your first years in teaching
- GCSE science 2019: Awarding and outcomes explored
- GCSE science 2019: How was it for you and your students?
- GCSE science 2019: How was it for you and your students support booklet
- GCSE science 2019: Key messages to support development
- Marking and improving student outcomes in AO2-focused questions
- Marking and improving student outcomes in AO2-focused questions support booklet
- Marking and improving student outcomes in maths related questions
- Marking and improving student outcomes in maths related questions support booklet
- Marking and improving student outcomes in practical work-focused questions
- Marking and improving student outcomes in practical work-focused questions support booklet
- Progression from KS3 to Higher Education: Curriculum pathways in science.
- January 2018
We attended the ASE at the University of Liverpool to talk about everything science, from getting ready for summer 2018 GCSEs to demystifying awarding.
AQA workshops
We hosted several workshops throughout the event. See below for our workshop topics, slides, and accompanying materials.
- Get ready for AQA GCSE sciences in 2018
- Awarding at GCSE and A-level – demystified
- The A-level Biology essay
- Practically speaking at A-level
- GCSE Physics: Technician in action
- Fieldwork and beyond
- CPAC: Making your delivery even better
- Experimental EPQs
Showcasing new resources including practice papers
We also showcased the resources available to support your teaching, including our new set of practice papers and mark schemes.
You can download these now from Secure Key Materials (SKM) within e-AQA to use as mock papers with your Year 11 students. These papers are completely free and password-protected. Written by our examiners, they mirror the structure and balance of the assessment criteria for the live summer 2018 papers.
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