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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
Posted in Courses, Resources, Specifications, ocr | 1 Comment »
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 ...
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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 ...
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