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Hodder Education will be first on the market to publish AQA(A) Psychology for AS resources. Fully tailored to the new 2008 AQA(A) Psychology specification this resource is supported by Student CD-ROM and a Network Edition CD-ROM for teachers. Both the book and the supporting Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs are written by best-selling authors and trusted experts Richard Gross and Geoff Rolls.

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Inspection Copies of OCR Psychology for AS, as well as Inspection Copies for AQA(A) and AQA(B) Psychology for AS resources can be requested now by e-mailing fe.marketing@hodder.co.uk quoting “slapes” in your email. Inspection copies are only available to teachers.

Hodder Education is currently the No. 1 publisher for A level Psychology. Being aware of the challenges difficulty teachers and students will be facing with the new 2008 specifications, it is our aim to provide teachers with leading expert advice and support. With this in mind and to maintain the complete support that teachers know and trust, we have chosen the leading expert authors to write our AQA(A) resources.

All of our A level psychology resources are complemented by Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs which will give you flexible support in the classroom and inspire your students.

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What is Dynamic Learning?
Dynamic Learning is the e-learning platform that helps you to bring your subject to life for students, powerfully and simply.

“Arguably, the transition to e-learning, and beyond that to personalisation, will only be made if the content can be transitioned alongside the process in such a way that both teacher and learner can retain a sense of the structure and shape of the learning process that equates to the security provided by traditional learning materials. If this argument is accepted then Hodder Dynamic Learning deserves a “best of breed” award”.

Outsell Insights article: Hodder Dynamic Learning Gets Into Its Stride At BETT by David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow – London, UK. January 16th 2008

This is a paid for sponsorship from Hodder – as soon as we have a copy of the books we will be writing reviews of them. From the extracts they look like excellent resources for the new specification.

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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 specifications. If you are planning to teach the OCR specifications, I do recommend the book. The authors have added 14 clear and accurate studies now making a total of 84 research studies.

As in earlier editions, the studies are accessible, lively and engaging. The authors have a real knack of summarising the studies in a wider context and demonstrating the limitations of the empirical research without knocking the stuffing out of the studies as some textbooks do.

I pre-ordered my first copy and then ordered a few more for work and the latter came within three days when ordered through Palgrave.

The only criticism I have of this text is that it does not cover the Sue Savage-Rumbaugh study, although in the authors’ defence this was a late addition to the specifications.

Phil and Cara are also working on a new edition of their OCR Psychology AS Core Studies text (Psychology Press) which will cover the whole of the AS OCR specifications.

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