It is important that the DfE publish correct science content in their GCSE subject content
You would think that the people in the Department for Education who draft the subject content for GCSE science would know stuff about science…
Sadly, it seems not…
Sadly, it seems this is not the case…
Yesterday I posted this reaction to the publication by the DfE of the GCSE_combined_science_content (copy taken – original link here). Others, including @alby and @hrogerson have written and commented about this as well.
[Another update: in the comments Richard Needham from the ASE has reminded me that over the next few weeks QfQual will be using these documents to ratify the Exam Boards’ science GCSE specifications. Not a good situation.]
[An update: the DfE released the GCSE_single_science_content in another document (original link here). Some of the errors below including the kinetic energy formula have not made it into this document and the space physics is obviously only considered interesting enough for the triple scientists. I will check the rest.]
I thought it relevant to post some specific points (just from the physics section – which didn’t even appear correctly in the table of contents). Now…
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In the Dark 
June 28, 2015 at 9:43 pm
Thanks for the re-blog – I’m saddened mainly by the lack of care in this supposed “rigorous” GCSE specification.
June 28, 2015 at 10:05 pm
Indeed. It’s so sloppy one could be forgiven for thinking they don’t care..