Comparative Study Of English Junior High School Physics Curriculum Standards

When the national physics curriculum reforms and the basic educational reforms are developing fast, Chinese physics curriculum is facing up to great challenge and opportunities. In the national curriculum reforms, England is an activity participant. The AQA published "General Certificate of Secondary Education—physics specification" in 2007, and decided to carry it out in 2008.The thesis mainly does some research on the following questions: (1) Similarity and differences between two countries' physics curriculums' objectives. (2) Similarity and differences between two countries' physics curriculums' contents. (3) Similarity and differences between two countries' physics curriculum's assessments. (4) Inspiration from England's physics curriculum to Chinese physic curriculum. By making comparative study on physics curriculum criterions of Chinese and England's secondary school, according to England physics curriculum criterion's present situation and Chinese middle school physics curriculums' developments, then combining new "Full-time compulsory education physics curriculum criterion" to fully analyze, research and discuss the two countries' curriculum objectives, curriculum contents and curriculum assessments. Hoping after comparing, we can add and amend Chinese curriculum criterion, meanwhile optimizing physics teaching, accelerating the developments of students' science characters.In theory, the thesis can summarize the blank in the two countries' physics curriculum comparing, and provide help to Chinese middle schools' curriculum reform, pointing out direction for teachers forming physics curriculum idea and physics teaching developments. In practice, the thesis can provide guidance for perfecting and amending 'Full-time compulsory education physics curriculum criterion', develope the efficiency in physic teaching and accelerate student's comprehensive developing.The thesis mainly focuses on three parts. Firstly, collecting some documents relating to England physics curriculum criterion to translate, research and compare. Secondly, starting form the two countries curriculum objectives, contents and assessments to compare their differences, advantages and disadvantages, then give some responsive advices to Chinese physics reforms. At last, after summarizing the thesis and giving some inspiration to Chinese physics new curriculum reform.The thesis' fruits are centered to three aspects in the thesis. Firstly, by comparing the two physics curriculum criterion's curriculum objectives, contents and assessments, we can put forwards some advices to stimulate physic curriculum reform. In curriculum objectives area, such as "emphasizing culturing students' social abilities", "paying attention to students' civic awareness, responsibility and mental health education", "emphasizing students' cooperation ability", "emphasizing the appliance of information and communication technology". In curriculum contents area, such as in subjects, it puts forwards "emphasizing the combination of information and physics teaching", "emphasizing the application of physic graphs", "emphasizing the expression of abstract knowledge to visualization knowledge", "expanding curriculum knowledge", "using question to introduce subject contents"; In the "inquiry", it poses that "making full use of lab", "emphasizing teachers' inquiry abilities" , "teachers changing the role from worker to researcher", "paying more attention to science's social and limitation character", "enriching inquiry activities and data expression's diversity"; In the curriculum assessments area, it puts forwards "concerning the inquiry process and inquiry assessments", "paying more attention to assessments' objectivity and openness", "emphasizing assessments fairness", "assessments caring about science's realistic spirit and humanity", "caring about assessments independence". Secondly, it puts forwards some suggestion on the amend of Chinese 'standard', such as "combining the content objectives and capacity objectives in Chinese 'criterion'", "enriching emotion, attitude and value in Chinese 'criterion'", "developing physics curriculum teaching source", "universities and middle schools cooperating to developing new curriculum". At last, the thesis gives some inspiration on the physics new curriculum reform and gives some advices, such as "reinforcing cooperation between universities and middle schools", "paying more attention to change teachers' idea", "paying more attention to students' all-around developments", "the physics contents arrangements should be close to life and society".