Teaching the Applied Science course
The OCR specification provides a range of equivalent modules from which teachers or students pick three.
'Life care', 'Materials and performance' and 'Scientific detection' are suitable for the start of the course. At this point the emphasis is likely to be on developing competence in a range of standard procedures, backed up with procedural understanding and with concepts of valid measurement.
Some centres might decide to start the course with an induction programme, providing their students with a 'toolkit' of knowledge, understanding and skills with standard procedures of measurement likely to crop up in all three modules.
Internal assessment of skills in the first module might focussed on standard procedures. The second module it might do the work-related report, with a suitability test in the third module.
See Practical competencies and Assessment.
