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OCR charging for past papers and mark schemes

March 6, 2008

  OCR ‘recognise achievement’ and are providing psychology teachers with the opportunity to buy the January 2008 question papers and mark schemes. How magnanimous. Past papers are priced at just £1.60 each, with the corresponding qualification mark scheme priced at £5.10. But hey “The past papers are available for immediate dispatch; due to production timescales [...]

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New Specification Workshops from Philip Alan Updates

March 4, 2008

Philip Allan Updates have announced the dates and times for their workshops for the new A level specifications. They are offering workshops for teachers of the OCR, AQA (A), AQA (B), and Edexcel specifications. Below are the latest workshops for teachers.   Preparing to teach the new OCR AS Psychology specification London 16/05/2008 Preparing to [...]

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Health Psychology course at the University of Cumbria

January 11, 2008

In March at the University of Cumbria (Carlisle) the applied health psychology lecturers are planning to put on a day of lecture/workshop sessions on several health psychology topics. They are aimed at OCR psychology students following the Health option. The event will held at Learning Gateway Lecture Theatre, Fusehill Street Campus, Carlisle There are 4 [...]

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Hear from leading researchers for free at OCR Psychology event

January 4, 2008

  There are quite a few events for the 2008 specifications going on this year but so far, this one has to be easily the most interesting. OCR is offering two free events for psychology teachers thinking of offering OCR specifications for 2008. As well as giving an overview of the new qualification, this event [...]

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Changes to GCSE Psychology

December 30, 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 to produce [...]

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OCR Psychology for AS Karon Oliver, Louise Ellerby-Jones

December 29, 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 book is [...]

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Introducing Psychological Research (Third Edition) – Banyard and Grayson

December 28, 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 added to the OCR [...]

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Edexcel to offer GCSE psychology

December 7, 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 way to go [...]

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AQA (A) still the clear league leader

November 23, 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 various awarding [...]

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OCR Marking – again

November 23, 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 papers badly marked [...]

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