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Revision strategies from cognitive science

September 30, 2019December 11, 2019Oxford Science Team 2 Comments

Revision. A word which probably conjures up memories of the anxious weeks before exams, frantically reading through notes wielding a highlighter in an attempt to get vaguely remembered knowledge into your head. Perhaps you did some practice questions, or maybe you felt so overwhelmed that you ended up doing nothing. Whatever your approach, you would […]

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What can we learn from the OCR A Level Religious Studies examiner reports?

November 20, 2018November 20, 2018Oxford RE Team

OCR have released their examiner reports into the first OCR A Level Religious Studies exams which took place in the summer. The reports overall have been really positive, with students performing well in the new exams. We have summarized the key issues that the examiners found students needed to improve, and gathered some free content […]

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Animal studies of attachment

September 7, 2016April 3, 2017Rosalind Geillis 2 Comments
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Two key animal studies are named by the AQA specification: Lorenz’s research with goslings and Harlow’s study of infant rhesus monkeys. Here’s a lesson plan for the topic. Introducing the topic Enter the phrase, ‘unusual animal friends’ into a search engine to find lots of examples of unlikely animal attachments. Either show the class a […]

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