Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

StudySuccess.co.uk

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I first purchased Exam Genie a few years ago for one of my students. The small book and supporting materials are very student friendly and simple to follow. I have since directed a number of students to this website if they want tips on mnemonics for exams and the feedback from ...

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 ...

Psychology Short Cuts 2 from onlineclassroom.tv

Monday, December 17th, 2007

  Following the success of Short Cuts 1 Classic Studies in Psychology, the second Short Cuts collection is being launched in early 2008. If you haven’t already purchased Classic Studies you can purchase it from onlineclassroom.tv Research in Context: Making statistics accessible In response to a need identified by teachers, this collection focuses ...

The future of the AEA

Friday, December 7th, 2007

  Advanced Extension Awards (AEAs) were introduced in summer 2002 and were designed to challenge the most able A level students and to provide opportunities for students to show a greater depth of understanding than required at A level. The AEA is available in 19 subjects. The subjects offered for AEA have ...

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. ...

Psychseed

Monday, November 12th, 2007

 Psychseed.com Psychseed aim to provide A Level Psychology (AQA A) teachers with high quality, easily accessible resources. They say that their student revision days and teacher workshops are designed to help you and your students focus on those aspects of the subject that are key to success. Psychseed offer Succeed in Psychology – ...

Uniview Catalogue

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Uniview recently posted their new catalogue out to centres and if you are not on their mailing list, you can go over to their web site and order one. Myself I like trees, so I would suggest that you subscribe to their e-newsletter or just visit their site.

Open University Resources

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

The Open University has made its resources freely available on OpenLearn.   You can now access the Exploring Psychology unit and much more by visiting here.

Books for AQA psychology

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Nelson Thornes is the official partner for AQA psychology and they have an AS book due out for AQA (A) in March 2008. The authors are Simon Green, Rosie McGinley, Julia Willerton, Jane Willson and James Bailey There is more information here. The AQA (B) AS book is also due in March ...