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Nuffield Extended Project Qualification guide
Mon, 16 November 2009

Nuffield Curriculum Centre

The focus in the Assessment Objectives is on the process, the evidence, and the written report, rather than the quality of the final product.
An A-level Extended Project helps students to become better autonomous learners and enables them to study a topic of particular interest to them. It helps them to develop their research and project management skills including

• planning and time management,
• identifying and evaluating resources and using the
Internet effectively
• recording and analyzing data,
• producing the project product including a written report
• making a presentation.

Here is some feedback from teachers and lecturers:

‘We’ve already bought 20 student books and one supervisor file. The student books are particularly helpful and the perfect size for students to chuck in their bags.’

‘They’re brilliant, they are!’

The EPQ assesses the process the students have gone through rather than just the final outcome.

It covers all subjects but draws on the skill development work of the Learning Skills for Science project.

It is a joint production of the Nuffield Foundation Curriculum Programme and Gatsby Technical Education Projects. The lead authors are Mary James and Gillian Dale, and the editors are Angela Hall and Jean Scrase.

See EPQ student companion and supervisors’ file from Nelson Thornes.

Extended Project Qualification from AQA. Edexcel and OCR also run this specification.