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Research Methods

Student Research in the time of Covid

January 4, 2021January 5, 2021Oxford Psychology Team
Research methods chapter 7 from Complete Companion series

Psychology A Level teacher, examiner and text book author, Rachel Moody discusses her experience of teaching research methods during Covid and how she even benefited from the flexible, consultation-style teaching brought on by remote learning.

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Implementing Mastery in Psychology Research Methods

February 10, 2020March 26, 2020Oxford Psychology Team

Mastery isn’t a groundbreaking idea, there’s nothing novel about it, it is the old fashioned concept that you should do something until you get it right and not move on until you have. Brilliant isn’t it? I hope I haven’t put you off yet. Traditional education keeps time as the constant and learning variable – […]

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What’s so difficult about Psychology?

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018Oxford Psychology Team

Every student of Psychology finds at least something difficult! It can be hard for teachers to put themselves ‘into the students’ shoes’ and understand their problems with ‘learning’. I got some insight into this when I spent several years at a local college doing a part-time course in a second language and taking GCSE and […]

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Research and statistics: fostering passion, not fear

June 22, 2017June 27, 2017Oxford Psychology Team
Students working with calculator

Psychology is an amazing subject to teach. Whether you are teaching GCSE or supervising a PhD, we are lucky enough to spend our days understanding how people think, feel and behave. Psychology is a popular subject with students, and it is easy to engage them in understanding how mental health conditions are treated, or how […]

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How to impress your examiner – part 1

May 11, 2017June 15, 2017Oxford Psychology Team

Taking exams is like wiping your bottom. It’s not the point of the exercise, but it’s a very important part of the process. In my last blog , I listed a few errors are almost guaranteed to make us teachers scream. In this blog, I’ll explain how students can avoid the errors and even how they can write […]

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Seeing red at the Olympics

September 1, 2016April 11, 2017Oxford Psychology Team
Taekwondo competitors

Watching Team GB competing in the taekwondo final, I mentioned to a friend that competitors wearing red guards won more bouts than those in blue guards.  Inevitably, this started a discussion about what it might be that caused the difference.  Was it because higher ranked competitors were given the red guards?  Did it affect all […]

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You may never use powerpoint again….

June 8, 2010Adrian Frost

There’s a useful presentation on experimental design to be found here But equally interesting is the software that has been used to produce it – you can have a play here – it’s really easy to use, and you have to agree the presentations look pretty slick.. I was wondering – this could be used for a […]

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