Research Methods Year 2 complete unit resources ( A Level Psychology)

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.