Measures of Dispersion in line with unit 1 (Research Methods) of the OCR A LEvel Psychology Specification. Powerpoint includes details on range, standard deviation and variance. Includes details on how to calculate (walk through example for each), strengths and weaknesses and past paper questions (with answers).

Unit 3 section B guidance in line with the OCR A level Psychology Specification. Powerpoint outlines the structure of the exam, question formats, suggested structures, example paragraphs/answers and overall hints/tips for the paper.

OCR A Level Psychology Observation Content. 1 of the 4 Research Methods needed for Unit 1 - Research Methods. Powerpoint includes answers to the observation starter (also attached), video to test observation skills, discussion activities, key terms and definitions, strengths & weaknesses as well as links to core studies and real life examples.

Activity in line with Unit 2 (Core Studies) of the OCR A level Psychology Specification. Students are asked to list the 20 core studies in terms of sample sizes. Clarity given for a few studies where sample sizes are ambiguous/multiple studies are conducted. Answers included at the end. Really got my students thinking! Great revision activity before exams.

Personal Experience Record activity in line with Unit 1 section B (Research Methods) of the OCR Psychology A level specification. Students are given background on when they’ll be asked to refer to personal experience (including an example question) as well as given guidance on what to make a note of. Right hand slide of the task left blank for teachers to add the practicals they have completed/set for their class.

Criminal Psychology Topic 6. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions,discussion tasks, videos, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Extra bits from the unit 1 (Research Methods) content of the OCR A Level Psychology specification. Powerpoint outlines additional information needed for unit 1 sections A and C including induction vs deduction, hypotheses, levels of data, referencing, report writing etc.

Unit 3 section A (Issues in Mental Health) question guidance in line with the OCR A level psychology specification. Powerpoint outlines structure of the unit 3 paper, hints & tips (such as timings), example questions with structure guidance, other questions to try and help with command verbs.

Core Studies Island Challenge in line with unit 2 of the OCR A level psychology specification. Students are given the task to defend their core study from being banished from the island and choose to attack another core study researcher (using evaluation of course!). Slide includes set up, task guidance and criteria. Great way to revise unit 2 and evaluating/discussing skills.

Guidance for the smaller questions from Unit 1 Section B (Research Methods) from the OCR A level psychology specification. Slides include guidance on hypotheses, aims, open/closed questions, evaluate and strength/weakness questions. Slides include structure and example answers as well as hints and tips using the 2023 unit 1 paper as a guide.

Core Study Wheel of Doom. In line with unit 2 of OCR A level Psychology but can be used with other courses that require knowledge of key research. Can also be adapted to unit 3 options. Simple powerpoint with visual of wheel and core study name. I display this on the board as students enter the classroom and get them to write as much as they can remember about that core study on a blank piece of paper. The ‘wheel of doom’ then selects someone to tell me something from the core study. It is the wheel of doom as their name does not get removed from the wheel and so they could get picked again! Class tools is the website I use that enables you to save a list of class names but I know some people have lollipop sticks etc that they use!

Spreadsheet outlining topics that came up in previous exam papers. Useful in helping focus revision (especially for low ability students). UPDATED TO INCLUDE ALL 2017-2024 topics. For Unit 1 focuses on research method and stats test covered. For unit 2 focuses on area(s) questioned in section B and debates asked in the paper (as well as marks awarded for debates questions). For unit 3 focuses on topics asked within section A (mental health) and section B (CRIME AND ENVIRONMENT ONLY) as well as the debates asked in question B for both these options.

Levine pre-reading task in line with the OCR A level psychology specification (unit 2). Students are required to read and watch information from The Human Empathy Project before picking a country from Levine’s sample, doing research on how their culture’s values may influence kindness plus predict the result from that country. I tuned this into a contest by handing out rewards to the 3 closest students in each class. Gets students engaging in the core study’s focus of culture influencing helpfulness.