Yes you are right. 'A level' is short for General Certificate of Secondary
Education Advanced Level ( GCE A level). These are taken by 18 year old
students in England (and I guess Wales but not Scotland who have their own
system). They are subject based and students typically need three A levels at
appropriate grades to go on University.

HTH

Colin Lawson
----- Original Message -----
From: espifern
To: learning-science-concepts@...
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: LSC: All quiet on the learning science front?


I hope you will excuse the question, but I don't think I know what 'A
level' means, is it advanced level at the high school? of course I
work in the US so this is perhaps unique to the UK.
F. Espinoza


--- In learning-science-concepts@..., RICHARD CHAPMAN
<r_i_chapman@y...> wrote:
> To: Dr. Keith Taber
> From: Richard Chapman
>
> Is anyone doing any studies on how students learn physics at A
level and/or problem solve?



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