This contains all 15 lessons in the Research Methods topic for AQA GCSE Psychology. It also contains a Homework booklet, a Starter booklet and the entire Research Methods Workbooklet.
A collection of resources aimed at students in their 2nd year of study, sitting the AQA A-level Psycholgy exam. Each statistical test is covered over 2 pages within the 21-page booklet and involves students working through each test. The 21-page booklet is student friendly and has step-by-step instructions as well as extra guidance on each PowerPoint dedicated to each statistical test.
PLEASE NOTE: This does not cover the sign test as this is taught in Year 1.
It covers the inferential statistics part of research methods, including:
Choosing a statistical test
Probability and significance (including type 1 and 2 errors)
Mann-Whitney
Wilcoxon
Unrelated t-test
Related t-test
Spearman’s rho
Pearson’s R
Chi-squared
To be used alongside the pink-haired girl book! Suitable for beginners to statistics, easy to follow along.
These concise but thorough Research Methods revision notes cover the whole specification for Research Methods section in AQA A Level Paper 2.
Please note if you are studying AS Level then these notes will cover the sections that you need as well as the full A Level topics.
***Designed for students or teachers to download.
These notes include:
Every bullet point within the specification
Concise information that’s easy to learn
Based on 12 years teaching and examining experience
Created by a qualified specialist Psychology teacher
It contains a pdf of 34 sheets covering the whole Research Methods topic.
You may also like my other revision notes for Paper 1:
AQA Paper 1 Psychology Revision Notes
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This editable 32 page workbook is perfect for independent study or guiding students throughout the lesson, for experienced and new teachers alike.
On Page 2-3 is the specification, with three faces so they can RAG rate their understanding throughout the topic. It also has a column they can tick to indicate that they have revised each area. On Pages 4-6 is a glossary which could be used as revision or in lesson as a key terms test.
On each page there is space for students to complete information or activities to demonstrate their understanding and completion of the topic.
When printing, I would recommend converting the PowerPoint to PDF as this may cause some formatting issues with some printers.
**AQA Level Psychology: Design a study question (12 mark type).
Resources include:
PowerPoint (explains how you answer the question with model answer)
Information sheet on how to answer the question (for students)
Design issues for different research methods (questionnaires /observations) for students to consider.
Exam questions
Back by popular demand for a third year! Our heads of department have once again been hard at work to create a series of predicted exams for Summer 2024!
These questions are completely original and have been designed from scratch. There has been no reuse of previous exam questions.
This is for the following paper: AQA A Level Psychology Paper 1 (7182/1) - Introductory Topics in Psychology
Our predicted paper follows the format of the true AQA A Level Psychology Paper 1 closely. It is also the exact duration and mark-count. A detailed mark scheme is also attached.
The paper covers the following specification points:
• 4.1.1 - Social influence
• 4.1.2 - Memory
• 4.1.3 - Attachement
• 4.1.4 - Psychopathology
Disclaimer: This document was created by department heads with many years of experience teaching the AQA A Level Psychology course. We cannot however guarantee that it is an accurate representation of the 2024 examinations and students should not treat it as such. Please use this as an aid, alongside other methods of revision.
Everything you need to teach Research Methods as a stand alone topic.
Resources include all Research Methods topics for Year 1 and include loads of interactive activities and mini-practicals.
Bundle also includes revision activities for Year 2, as well as practicals for students to put everything they have learned into practice and apply statistical testing.
Back by popular demand for a third year! Our heads of department have once again been hard at work to create a series of predicted exams for Summer 2024!
These questions are completely original and have been designed from scratch. There has been no reuse of previous exam questions.
This is for the following paper: AQA A Level Psychology Paper 2 (7182/2) - Psychology in Context
Our predicted paper follows the format of the true AQA A Level Psychology Paper 2 closely. It is also the exact duration and mark-count. A detailed mark scheme is also attached.
The paper covers the following specification points:
• 4.2.1 - Approaches in Psychology
• 4.2.2 - Biopsychology
• 4.2.3 - Research Methods
Disclaimer: This document was created by department heads with many years of experience teaching the AQA A Level Psychology course. We cannot however guarantee that it is an accurate representation of the 2024 examinations and students should not treat it as such. Please use this as an aid, alongside other methods of revision.
This is a full lesson resource for case studies and content analysis for AQA Psychology. It covers the description and strengths and weaknesses. It has an activity to carry out a quantitative content analysis on some made up lonely hearts ads. They can do an inter-rater check as well to ensure consistency between two observers.
It includes a ppt and a notes sheet with activities throughout to check learning. The students complete
the notes sheet as we work through the ppt so they have some bits to fill in and activities to complete.
A full lesson (1 hr 30-2 hrs) on Types of Observations for AQA Psychology. This includes:
-A powerpoint which outlines types of observations, evaluation of observations, sampling procedures, behavioural categories and inter-rater reliability.
-A summary table
-Activities on observations
-Exam Questions on Observations
-Ideas for designing their own observation
Everything you need to successfully teach Year 2 Research Methods: Scheme of work, knowledge booklet, PowerPoints for every lesson, engaging worksheets, exam links and activities that prepare students for the skills required to successfully answer challenging research methods exam questions.
These resources are carefully designed to meet the demands of both the specification and examination style questions. All resources are organised into clear, easy to follow folders and an explanation of how I use them in a detailed scheme of work.
These resources are complete topic resources for the Research Methods topic from Year 2 only of AQA Psychology A-Level specification.
This resource includes:
A scheme of work that explains the order and how I use the resources
Knowledge booklet
Research methods knowledge organiser (complete for year 1 and year 2)
Statistical tests work book
Full resources (booklets, worksheets, PowerPoints) for the following lessons (with a brief outline of what is included for each section):
Case studies and content analysis: Independent work for students to complete prior to the lesson. This lesson includes hypotheses feedback, a case studies and content analysis quiz/test.
Reliability: Experimental design recap with an exam link to counterbalancing (highlighting a common error made by students), true or false worksheet (based on independent work), structured PowerPoint covering every concept. Group work exam link activity.
Validity: Structured PowerPoint covering validity, key term matching activity (worksheet), exam link ‘apply it’ questions with built in feedback and validity dominoes game.
Features of science: A sequence of lessons that includes: Independent work activity, structured PowerPoint, apply is ‘replication’, detailed multiple-choice test covering all the features of science, A range of scaffolded application questions. The resources also include an ‘essay link question’ – an effective lesson planned as group work to build resilience and help students prepare for ‘unexpected’ challenging questions.
Writing a psychological report: A sequence of lessons to develop the skills and cover all content. These lessons include: Clear and structured PowerPoints, multiple choice test (to test knowledge on all sections of a psychological report, range of structured teacher led practice questions with built in feedback. Activity on the importance of replication. How to write an abstract and how to reference (with exam question links).
Statistical testing including the sign test: A highly structured and detailed sequence of lessons structured around a work booklet and clear PowerPoints to develop both knowledge and skills.
Content analysis and thematic analysis: Detailed PowerPoint with exam question links (worksheets)
Histograms: Powerpoint, selecting the correct graph and exam question link.
Designed for AQA but could be used for other boards. This is a booklet of activities the students work through for revision on research methods. I have included answers for the statistics section of the booklet.
Includes:
Hypotheses
Variables
Ethics
Sampling methods
Research methods
Validity
Reliability
Statistics
Data
Distributions
Features of Science
I have included a PDF version and a word version. The word version doesn’t always keep all its formatting when it is opened on different laptops so I would stick with the pdf version.
This was designed to work with a teacher presentation that can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revision-for-research-methods-teacher-presentation-aqa-psychology-could-be-used-for-other-boards-11623128
A 25 page booklet, 5 PowerPoints and a range of activities, spaces for notes and discussion points that cover the new BTEC L3 Unit 4 Current Research in Health and Social Care. This is a continuation of the Introduction and Learning Aim A booklet, the follow on Learning Aim B1, B2 and B3 and the B4 booklets, also on TES. You can add to and adapt this Microsoft Word booklet to suit your own teaching style and your students will have their own completed booklet, from which to revise from.
(Learning Aim B; has been broken into small booklet resource packages B1, B2 and B3 and then B4, all available with continuous page numbering on TES https://www.tes.com/member/HSCresources)
Spec covered, as below:-
C1 Selecting appropriate secondary sources
• Selecting sources of reliable secondary research, including professional journals,
professional bodies, textbooks, periodicals, websites, research organisations.
• Conducting electronic searches using academic search engines, databases, keywords, advanced search tools, refining search data to narrow range of information to manageable size.
• Consideration of the suitability of the sources, including reference to ethical principles, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, fair representation of people using services.
• Selecting relevant numerical data, to include graphs, tables and statistics.
• Examining and interpreting graphs and tables produced by others.
• Recognising bias in graphs, tables and statistics.
C2 Evaluation of research
• Examining content of secondary materials including introduction, body of text, conclusion.
• Academic reading, to include surveying structure of source materials.
• Advantages and limitations of research sources and methodologies, e.g. access to data.
• Validity and reliability of results, including possible bias error, use and misuse of statistics, principles, generalisability.
• Recommendations, as a result of the research, for work with people who use services.
• Potential areas for further development of the research.
• Potential for development of working practice and provision of services.
C3 Wider applications of research
• Making recommendations for potential future areas for research.
• Implications of research for health and social care practice.
• Implications of research for health and social care service provision.
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Work booklet given to students to complete independently. Makes an excellent summer project or revision resource. Students had some knowledge of the issues and debates content but had not covered it in any great depth. This booklet therefore contains enough detail for them to have a good understanding of the content but also leaves enough gaps for the students to use their existing knowledge and additional research skills to complete. Knowledge review questions are included at the end of every sub topic.
As always, I recommend students use the Tutor2u and Simply Psychology sites as a point of reference.
Levels of explanation picture credit to Tutor2U Psychology.
This PowerPoint provides an overview and step-by-step method for calculating Chi-squared. It is illustrated with 3 examples, including one using contingency tables. The formula and notation used are in line with the AQA GCE Human Biology Students’ Statistics Sheet (version 2.2).
AQA Psychology A-level: Research Methods (part 1)
From specification 7181, 7182 - Psychology in context (paper 2) I achieved an A* in Psychology A-level in 2018, across all three papers. I prioritised revision on evaluation, necessary for accessing higher grade!
Includes
The basis of experiments
Variables and control
Experimental methods
Experimental design
Non-experimental methods
Sampling techniques
Pilot studies, content analysis and ethical issues
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