Teaching & Assessment for Descriptive Statistics (A Level Psych). Mean, Median, Mode, Range, SD

This resource is for Year 1 and Year 2 Psychology A Level students. It would also suit any subject that needs to know how to identify, calculate and interpret Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Dispersion.

This resource has the following handouts:

A teaching video on Descriptive Statistics
A PowerPoint to accompany the teaching video on Descriptive Statistics
02 Questions on research methods including descriptive statistics (34 marks) (and design a study for Year 2 students - 54 marks)
02a Mark scheme for the above

The questions include:
IV & DV
Hypothesis selection
Experimental Design
Counterbalancing
Sampling techniques (and advantages)
Calculation of mean, median and mode
The advantages and disadvantages of the mean, median and mode
Interpretation of a means and standard deviation

For Year 2:
Identification and justification of inferential statistics test
Design a study (observation) for 12 marks.

The stimulus for the assessment questions is based on the concentric star experiment performed by HM. I’m sure you’re familiar with this experiment, but just in case you’re not… HM had his hippocampus removed to cure his epilepsy, however, it destroyed his ability to form new episodic and semantic memories. He performed an experiment where he was required to draw between the lines of concentric stars using only his reflection in a mirror (a tricky task). He got better at the task despite not remembering having ever done it. It provided evidence for a third type of long term memory - procedural, often referred to as ‘muscle memory’.

I usually use narrow margins for my Word documents, so if the formatting seems a bit out, then change the margins to narrow. If you have any problems with the resources, please contact me on Twitter @blonde_pretzel or via my YouTube channel called Psychology Students.

Thank you.