Archive for October, 2007
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 ...
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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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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The Association for the Teaching of Psychology
The Association for the Teaching of Psychology is still taking bookings for the Annual General Meeting on 17th November 2007, at Staffordshire University.
This one-day event includes a series of continuing professional development talks and workshops around the theme of Psychology, Health and Learning
The AGM ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The very popular one-day student conferences for 2007 are as follows.
AS AQA (A) Psychology
Unit 3: Revision Day London, 29 November 2007
AS AQA (A) Psychology
Unit 1: Revision Day London, 3 December 2007
Manchester, 30 November 2007
AS AQA (B) Psychology
Revision Day London, 23 November 2007
Manchester, 12 December 2007
AS/A2 OCR Psychology London, 19 November ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Professor David Canter and The International Academy for Investigative Psychology are hosting two conferences for 6th form students on offender profiling and investigative psychology.
The Cambridge conference is on December 10th 2007 and the Liverpool conference is on December 12th 2007.
According to the blurb the topics include:
Offender Profiling – Professor Canter ...
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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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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Like most psychology teachers, I simply do not have the time or inclination to read numerous psychology journals but still like to keep up to date with the latest research which is relevant to my teaching. Thankfully Christian Jarrett, editor of the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, has created an ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Cara Flanagan and Mike Cardwell run an excellent psychology conference company called South West Conferences.
One of their upcoming conferences that has caught my eye is the one where Professor Zimbardo will discuss his research with special reference to the Stanford Prison Experiment and his recent book The Lucifer Effect, and ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
This is certainly not new news for many teachers, but here are the urls for the new AS/A level specifications starting in September 2008.
AQA (A)
AQA (B)
OCR
Edexcel
WJEC
I know that many teachers are using the forthcoming changes to inform their decisions about which specifications they will be teaching in 2008. We would ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
We can announce that the 2008 ATP conference will be held at the University of Lincoln on Thursday 10th July through to Saturday 12th July 2008
Having successfully organised the past 14 conferences Joe Cocker has stepped down as conference organiser and the new conference organiser for 2008 is Phil Banyard.
According ...
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