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This paper contains the conclusions of a series of seminars involving leading UK manufacturers of school science laboratory equipment and science curriculum developers (referred to below as the Educational Data Monitoring and Control Group, EDM&CG, a list of whose members is shown in Appendix 1). These seminars were initiated at Homerton College, Cambridge, England in 1988 and have continued with a frequency of two or three per year ever since. Since 1990 the seminars have been sponsored by the National Council for Educational Technology (NCET), a non-departmental government body. The objective of the seminars is to review the progress taking place in the development and use of microelectronic based data capture equipment for classroom science activities.
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McFarlane, A.E., Thompson, D.S.C. (1996). The Development of a Communication Protocol for School Science Laboratory Equipment. In: Tinker, R.F. (eds) Microcomputer–Based Labs: Educational Research and Standards. NATO ASI Series, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61189-6_19
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