{"id":2035,"date":"2014-01-08T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:57:43","slug":"science-without-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/01\/science-without-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Without Experiments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hated experiments at A &#8211; level, but I can see the illogic of the latest reforms to science A &#8211; levels. Exam boards propose that experiments and coursework should not count towards your grades.<br \/>\nDoes this strike anyone as the idea of illiterate artists? Not doing experiments at A &#8211; level means that universities will have to teach experimental techniques from scratch, including all the error analysis stuff.<br \/>\nIt will also mean that university science is degraded, since PhD students will be more reliant on their supervisors, who will have to be more hands on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hated experiments at A &#8211; level, but I can see the illogic of the latest reforms to science A &#8211; levels. Exam boards propose that experiments and coursework should not count towards your grades. Does this strike anyone as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/01\/science-without-experiments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-level"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}