BPS Research Digest

via 9 evidence-based study tips.

“The September issue of The Psychologist magazine is a free-to-view student special containing a feature (pdf) by the Research Digest editor on the journey from A-level to Undergrad psychology, including the following 9 evidence-based study tips.”

Which can be found on the digest/in the magazine.  Get them thinking about studying psychology, using psychology.

Saturday March 5^th 2011

The ATP is running a CPD event which is open to all teachers of Psychology. The aim of the day is to provide high quality, low cost CPD for Psychology teachers.

The day will consist of interactive workshops given by experienced teachers and examiners on a variety of topics relevant to all teachers of Psychology.  There will be plenty of opportunity to network with like minded professionals.

The exact programme is still to be finalised, but will contain workshops on the following:

• Using new technologies to support teaching and facilitate learning;
• Developing Reflective Learners- increasing students’ understanding of how to improve work;
• Developing Independent Enquirers- equipping psychology students with the basic skills required to succeed in HE.

The event will be held at: -

The McAuley Catholic High School

Cantley Lane

Doncaster

South Yorkshire

DN3 3QF

The nearest train station is Doncaster and the school is 10 minutes away from junction 3 of the M18.

The cost of the day is £65. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided.  The day will begin with registration and coffee at 9.30am and finish at 3:30pm.  Please book your place early to avoid disappointment.

Please pay the £65 delegate fee via PayPal, on the website www.theatp.org .  In order to qualify for this bargain price you must be a member of the ATP.  Please join via www.theatp.org, if not already a member, before registering for the Event.

Any queries please contact: – eshakespeare@mcauley.org.uk

AS – May 25th 2011 Wednesday am

WJEC    PY1    (1h 15m)
OCR    G541   (1h 00m)
Edexcel    Unit 1 (1h 20m)
AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m)
AQA (B)  PSYB2  (1h 30m)

AS – June 7th 2011 Tuesday pm

AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m)
AQA (B)  PSB2  (1h 30m)
Edexcel    Unit 2 (1h 40m)
OCR    G542  (2h 00m)
WJEC    PY2     (1h 45m)

A2 – June 17th 2011 Friday pm

AQA (A) PSYA3 (1h 30m)
AQA (B) PSYB3 (2h 00m)
WJEC    PY3   (1h 30m)
OCR    G543    (1h 30m)
Edexcel    Unit 3    (1h 30m)

A2 – June 21st 2011 Tuesday am

AQA (A)  PSYA4 (2h 00m)
AQA (B) PSYB4  (2h 00m)
OCR   G544    (1h 30m)
Edexcel    Unit 4 (2h 00m)
WJEC    PY4  (2h 30m)

All of the dates and times were kindly provided by www.modernisationonline.org.uk

January 2010 exams are here.

Before we get back to school and we (or at least I) am too busy to think about anything much beyond getting through the weeks, I thought I’d put a bit more of a substantive post up.  This is about how I use shared bookmarks to help me store resources, provide ‘extra reading’ (or media) for students, and use this alongside psychexchange resources.

If we go to www.delicious.com/sjgknight.  By using the ‘tag bundles’ on the right, you can select ‘psychology’ (under ‘subject’) and relationships (under ‘PsychTopics’).  At the moment this will bring up about 70 bookmarks, we’ll narrow that down again to ‘sexual.selection’ bookmarks (see video for more detail on using delicious)

Using the same principles, you can navigate all of my bookmarks – subject, to topic.  Within each topic you can see which sub-areas have been most frequently tagged (Eyewitness testimony, or ‘EWT’ under ‘memory’, for example).

Using the ‘sexual selection’ bookmarks, I’ve used the Seinfeld clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsusKuZ1uL0 to get students thinking about sexual selection and attraction.

Following that you could use the videos here: http://www.delicious.com/sjgknight/relationships+sexual.selection+video

I like to split the students into groups of about 3, each with a laptop and ask them to watch 1 or 2 videos each.  The question prompts here could be used alongside these.  The session could also involve reading a selection of articles, either provided for students or of their choice from the original sexual selection bookmarks.

Students could be encouraged to think about how these bits of evidence fit into the relationships scheme of work by using an essay grid and placing each bit in it.

This will hopefully be the first in a series of posts of this nature so feedback – even if it’s to say ‘don’t bother’ would be much appreciated so I can keep my posts as useful as possible.  I’d like to use combinations of people’s resources in the future so I’ll keep an eye out for ways I can do this, but if you have an idea then contact me via psychexchange.  My aim is to write a few posts which ‘bundle’ media & psychexchange resources for a full lesson or set of lesson ideas.

If you want to use delicious there are a couple of ways – simply using my & other people’s bookmarks, or by creating your own account.  If you take the latter option, you can tailor bookmarks to your classess/interests, and also join my network – providing a ‘searchable’ network of bookmarks including mine and yours.  This also allows you to link with other subjects as MrESpiers – a sociology teacher – and I have done.  My (small) network is here.  We also both tweet, sjgknight and MrESpiers.

The movie was made using the opensource CamStudio and (also opensource) Virtual Magnifying Glass with editing in Windows Live Moviemaker.

AS -   January 12th 2011  Wednesday am

Edexcel Unit 1 (1h 20m)
AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m)
WJEC PY1 (1 h 15m)
OCR G541 (1h 00m)
AQA (B)  PSYB1 (1h 30m)

AS -  January 19th 2011 Wednesday am

AQA (A) PSYA2 (1h 30m)
WJEC PY2 (1 h 45m)
OCR G542 (2h 00m)
AQA (B) PSYB2 (1h 30m)
Note that Edexcel do not offer unit 2 in January

A2 January 28th 2011 Friday am

Edexcel Unit 3 (1h 30m)
AQA (A) PSYA3 (1h 30m)
WJEC PY3 (1 h 30m)
OCR G543 (1h 30m)
AQA(B) PSYB3 (1h 30m)

February 2nd 2011 Wednesday pm

Edexcel Unit 4  (2h 00m)
AQA (A) PSYA4 (2h)
WJEC PY4 (2h 30m)
OCR G544  (1h 30m)
AQA (B)  PSYB4 (2h 00m)

All of the dates and times were kindly provided by www.modernisationonline.org.uk

GCSE exams coming soon and GCE summer exam are here.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Human Genome Project the Science Museum is hosting a wonderfully interactive gallery named “Who am I?”

The Gallery will make for a great visit for psychology students visiting London and is certainly the best museum of interactive psychology currently available in the UK.

Students of psychology (especially AS and A level) will easily relate to the interactive content and it is free.  Many of the interactive installations are clearly mapped onto the content of A level psychology and there are some real gems here relating to memory, attraction and much more.

Although I found the web site to be OK it is no way as good as the real gallery experience.  I would suggest that A level students, with guidance, could easily enjoy and pass a full morning or afternoon learning about “Who am I?”     The Science Museum is open every day from 10:00 to 18:00.

Links

“Who am I” web site

Science Museum

Some summer listening (unfortunately not in podcast form):

BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Case Study.

Psyonline.org.uk have announced that they are to cease providing online resources for students and teachers of AQA psychology from today (4th August).

They note that “It is with regret that we must announce the end of PsYonline. The website has been funded for some years by Edge Hill University, but owing to budget decisions, the university can no longer host the site. We have tried to find an alternative means of funding but without success. Therefore, from August 4th 2010, PsYonline will no longer be active. We wish to thank all those involved in the success of the website, which has been in existence for 8 years, from its inception to the present time, and apologise to our 2102 registered teachers and many students, who regularly use the site to enhance their teaching/learning or just to share their thoughts in the staff room and guest book areas. Please feel free to download/print off any materials you may need for your future teaching. We know that the site will be missed by many. The PsYonline Team”

The 2011 ATP annual conference will be held on 8th -10th July 2011 at the University of Hertfordshire and one of the keynote speakers will be Elizabeth Loftus. Website details to follow.

With great sadness Richard Gregory (1923 – 2010) died on May 17, 2010

You can read more about Richard by following this link to Cara’s blog on the Folens site.

http://www.richardgregory.org/