http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/index.php EN Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:50:03 +0200 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:50:03 +0200 PsychExchange.co.uk Phorum 5.1.25 60 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?1,39,95#msg-95 Mark
Which resources are you having a problem accessing?

Oh and thanks again to all of those teachers who have uploaded resources.]]> The Exchange http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?1,39,95#msg-95 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:50:03 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?1,39,94#msg-94 wendy.wilkinson
Regards all W**]]> The Exchange http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?1,39,94#msg-94 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:48:57 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,91,93#msg-93 jme
http://www.atpconference.org.uk/workshops]]> Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,91,93#msg-93 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:18:17 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,91,92#msg-92 jme [/url]
J]]> Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,91,92#msg-92 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:24:32 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,91,91#msg-91 manja Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,91,91#msg-91 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:27:52 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?8,38,90#msg-90 the oracle I have spoken to several people recently from different parts of the UK who were considering moving to WJEC. In the past I have organised meetings for groups of OCR psy teachers, and it is useful to get together once in a while, especially when a lot of us are in a department of one. If I changed to wjec, I'd like to do something similar if possible.]]> WJEC Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?8,38,90#msg-90 Sun, 25 May 2008 14:13:57 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?8,38,89#msg-89 the oracle WJEC Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?8,38,89#msg-89 Sun, 25 May 2008 13:51:07 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,86,88#msg-88 jme
Hopefully see you there!]]> Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,86,88#msg-88 Fri, 23 May 2008 21:00:53 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,86,87#msg-87 Mark
Sorry for the late reply.

It does seem quite expensive (although when one compares this with other forms of CPD it compares very favourably) although I think the teachers most likely to benefit from the ATP conference are new, newish or those working in single person departments.

Most of the discussions at the conference will be about the new specs and the conference should be a great way of gaining both information about the new specs and making contacts that will help with the planning of teaching for the next academic year. There will be some very experienced teachers, examiners, senior examiners and so on that will be willing to share their advice and opinions.

I believe that there might be many newish teachers who feel over-whelmed by the conference, and therefore unfortunately do not attend. I have just checked and there are still some places left. Again for new or newish teachers I think that this is one heck of an opportunity to make some great contacts that will help your teaching over the coming months.

Have fun
Mark]]> Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,86,87#msg-87 Sun, 18 May 2008 00:53:15 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,86,86#msg-86 jillyh
Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks
Jill]]> Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,86,86#msg-86 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:56:03 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,81,85#msg-85 Rob Vokes
6 cells
Male thin
Male medium
Male big
Famale thin
Female medium
Female Big

Get the picture?

Robvokes@hotmail.co.uk]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,81,85#msg-85 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:49:29 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,83,84#msg-84 Rob Vokes
Rob Vokes
robvokes@hotmail.co.uk

Sydenham school
Lewisham
London




The next one can be tricky. It depends on your pupils' specific hypothesis. They may have a subsidury one as two of my students just did. If the're interested in gender differences, as well as bog-standard majority influence, you will have to check that the male/female estimates are not significantly different from each other from a pilot non-influenced experiment. Because if they are then it suggests that they do not come from the same population. If this is the case then your sampling method - presumably opportunity sampling - will be invalidated, such that the main experimental results on what will be a gender balanced cohort of participnants Will be completly invalidated. This is because they may have different baseline from which they were influenced. If this is so You may end up commiting Beta Bias. See "issues" in Eysenk

If its just bog standats maj influence, then a Mann-whitney will do the trick



Lastly the foreign words. repearted measures so Wilcoxen. You can't do a Wilcoxen on an average score from two list. i.e. you can't do a Wilcoxon on one pair of numbers. Do it on the 1 to 5 scores on the two separated sets of words Con1= already seen words: Con2= novel words

I take it that the hyp is H1 = re-seen words are significantly liked more.

But your parts are going to figure this out in a jiffy. Therfore hard to avoid demand characteristics.

Good luck.
I hope i was of some help.]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,83,84#msg-84 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:45:57 +0200 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,83,83#msg-83 Jimbo
I'm currently carrying out task C with my yr12 students but having not done any statistics for several years (I'm an NQT) I am at a bit of a loss as to what to do. Most of the students in my group have done one of the suggested investigations in the Nelson Thornes Research Methods in Psychology book.

For example, Levels of processing:
Two conditions, semantic and non-semantic questions relating to 20 words. Recall of words in each condition recorded and score given out of 20. Would this be a chi-sq test and if so how should the table be arranged?

Conformity:

Jar filled with smarties, two groups of people asked to provide estimates. One condition exposed to high previous estimates and other condition exposed to low. Participants' estimates recorded - I'm pretty sure this is a Mann-Whitney U?

Mere exposure effect:

Participants given a list of novel words supposed to be from a 'foreign language'. Participants read through list aloud and then given a second list containing some of the words shown previously. Participants rate how 'nice' the words are on a scale of 1-5, favourability rating of words shown previously and not shown previously are then compared. Not really sure what to do with this one: take an average favourability from each condition for each participant and then do a Wilcoxon?

Am pretty rusty so any help or guidance would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks

Jimbo]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,83,83#msg-83 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:55:45 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,81,82#msg-82 jme OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,81,82#msg-82 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:14:09 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,81,81#msg-81 samjebishop OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,81,81#msg-81 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:43:29 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,80#msg-80 c.bull OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,80#msg-80 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:57:41 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,51,79#msg-79 Mark
http://www.atpconference.org.uk/programme]]> Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,51,79#msg-79 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:41:57 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?8,38,78#msg-78 Morty
At A2 I found I would get bored of teaching one applied unit for a whole term. I like the fact that now I do two topics per term, there is still time to teach it at depth, and develop exam skills. My main reason for changing at A2 was the dreaded assignment and coursework. The coursework for WJEC is so much better. It's a pity that it is going.

So, you will either change or not change, but I know there were enough aspects of OCR that I was not happy with that the change was a positive step for me.]]> WJEC Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?8,38,78#msg-78 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:24:52 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,77#msg-77 Mark OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,77#msg-77 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:35:00 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,51,76#msg-76 Mark Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,51,76#msg-76 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:26:03 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,51,75#msg-75 heidi
Heidi]]> Lincoln 2008 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?13,51,75#msg-75 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:05:43 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,74#msg-74 Daniele
I teach the international equivilent of OCR (CIE) and we have an identical syllabus except that we get to choose abnormal psychology as one of the A2 options. Its a great option and I can't understand why its not available in the UK. What do you guys think? (covers schizophrenia, Abnormal Affect, Anxiety Disorders etc).]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,74#msg-74 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:49:32 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,73#msg-73 Mark
Likewise OCR have previously been OK for us but my college is asking me to reconsider using OCR.

Have you seen the new event OCR are offering - its [url=http://www.ocr.org.uk/campaigns/newpsychology/]here[/url] and free.

Another thing that has recently occured to me is that it will be very difficult to do any of the papers in January - certainly not in the second year.]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,73#msg-73 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:06:55 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,72#msg-72 c.bull Very interested to hear your concerens about inconsistent marking as we had a dreadful experience of it this summer. Our coursework marks were way below previous years, despite doing exactly the same as before, so we complained and after the 10% sample returned with astonishing improvements (one student even went up from D to A!!), OCR agreed to re-mark all 135 scripts again and we saw a dramatic overall improvement, exactly where we should have been in the summer! In fairness to OCR though, this is the only time in 4 years that we have had a problem, although I'm well aware of colleagues like yourself expressing concerns.
Thanks for keeping in touch,

Chris]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,72#msg-72 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:36:00 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,71#msg-71 Mark

Thanks for sharing your experience of the meetings. Hopefully, I will be at the spring OCR meeting in Manchester – I think. Do you know who the speaker was for OCR was? Strange that they didn’t have one of the principal examiners for Unit 3

The more thought I have put into the timing etc for the unit 3 the more I am starting to agree with you. If I do find out any more information during examination/moderation meetings this January I will let you know. I really don’t want to have to change awarding bodies but am still considering it – especially considering some of the erratic marking for OCR.]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,71#msg-71 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:59:03 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,70#msg-70 c.bull
I've also attended the AQA presentations but feel the OCR course overall is best for my students. The AS course has a good range of studies to introduce psychology and the A2 offers crime and health which are very popular choices. The Unit 3 assessment remains my main concern. I take your point about the current Section A comparability but with 8-10 mins less time to answer each essay, and an extra 9 marks to find, surely OCR have got this one badly wrong?

Chris]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,70#msg-70 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:42:02 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,69#msg-69 Mark
It can be argued that the new questions for unit 3 are similar to the part a questions on the current specialist choice papers. (Most examiners of these papers will agree that these part a questions questions are the best discriminators on the papers as they require less formulaic answers and do stretch the students). Describe a sub topic and evaluate it.

However, currently a student has 30 mins to complete a part A question. 1 hour 30 mins to complete 4 does seem a bit tight though.

Was the meeting any good?]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,69#msg-69 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:44:16 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,68#msg-68 c.bull
Does anyone else agree this is absurd?]]> OCR Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,4,68#msg-68 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:29:36 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,66,67#msg-67 jme AQA Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,66,67#msg-67 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:17:38 +0100 http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,66,66#msg-66 evsie AQA Psychology http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,66,66#msg-66 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:16:16 +0100