Archive for the ‘ocr’ Category

Changes to GCSE Psychology

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

  The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has this month announced plans for changes to GCSE qualifications - including psychology GCSE. Teaching of the new criteria will begin in 2009 (if you are teaching the course over two years) and the first awards will be given in 2011. The awarding bodies will have ...

OCR Psychology for AS Karon Oliver, Louise Ellerby-Jones

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

  Hodder Education have promised that their textbook for the new OCR AS specifications will be due before April 2008 The textbook is written by Karen and Louise and for 20 quid you get the book and an interactive CD. The book will obviously be good. For example, the blurb states that the ...

Introducing Psychological Research (Third Edition) – Banyard and Grayson

Friday, December 28th, 2007

I forgot to mention that I received my pre-ordered copy of this book a few weeks ago from Palgrave.com  As far as I know this is the first textbook to be published for the new 2008 specifications. This is the third edition of the text designed to cover the new studies ...

Edexcel to offer GCSE psychology

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Edexcel have announced that they are to offer psychology GCSE. Currently AQA and OCR offer GCSE psychology, which is still a relatively small market. Last summer 3275 candidates sat AQA GCSE psychology and 3843 sat GCSE OCR psychology. However, looking at the Edexcel web site it does seem that they have some ...

AQA (A) still the clear league leader

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

  The AQA (A) specification is still the clear leader in terms of number of students sitting the different specifications. Last June (2007) 60.6% of students sitting A level psychology followed the AQA (A) specifications and 60.4% of students sitting AS psychology followed the AQA (A) route. Below are figures taken from the ...

OCR Marking - again

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

  Last month Warwick Mansell, a journalist working for TES, discovered that examiners who were remarking OCR psychology papers were told not to change students' A-level marks after school or college appeals unless there are overwhelming reasons to do so. This is of course particularly cruel for those students who had their ...

Transferring from AQA to OCR is not permitted

Friday, November 16th, 2007

  Individual candidates who move to another centre or who, for other reasons, have to change their course of study part way through a GCE psychology course may be eligible to transfer credit between specifications. Transfer is not automatic - an application must be made to the receiving awarding body. However, transfer ...

OCR Resources and Meetings

Monday, November 12th, 2007

  According to my email delivered on the 6th November  “OCR have produced Schemes of Work for the revised A Level qualifications, with a new approach piloted for a range of subjects. For these, we have adopted a ‘by teachers, for teachers approach, working with teachers from a number of different centres. ...

Books for OCR psychology

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

This will be the first of a number of posts on which books are going to be available for the new specifications. As you may know, the awarding bodies all now have their own “official partners” and for psychology OCR have gone to bed with Heinemann Heinemann are to publish an AS ...

OCR Marking

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The following article was posted on TES in September, although I have only just spotted it. I was aware that the journalist Warwick Mansell was researching the article but missed it when it was published. The main concern is regarding the inconsistent marking of the core studies 2 (2541) paper for ...