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Case Studies
A comprehensive guide to case studies in psychology, covering key features, strengths, limitations, and classic examples. Includes engaging activities, application tasks, and opportunities to explore famous case studies while developing evaluation and exam skills.
Observation
Everything students need to understand observational research, including participant and non-participant observation, covert and overt methods, and structured observations. Features practical activities, real-world examples, and exam-style tasks to reinforce understanding.
Participants
A complete resource covering target populations, sampling frames, and all major sampling techniques. Includes clear explanations, strengths and limitations, classroom activities, and application exercises to help students confidently tackle sampling questions in exams.
Independent and Dependent Variables
A student-friendly guide to independent variables, dependent variables, and co-variables. Packed with examples, practice activities, and exam-style tasks to help students identify and operationalise variables accurately in a range of research contexts.
Self Report Methods
Bring research methods to life with a collection of classroom-tested laboratory experiments. Includes ready-to-use activities, worksheets, discussion points, and opportunities to develop statistical, graphical, and evaluative skills. Designed to make abstract research concepts memorable and engaging.
Experiments
A complete guide to laboratory, field, and quasi-experiments. Students explore how psychologists establish cause and effect while developing their understanding of control, validity, reliability, and ethical considerations through engaging examples and activities.
Correlational Studies
An accessible introduction to correlational research, including co-variables, scattergrams, correlation coefficients, and interpretation skills. Features practice activities, exam-style questions, and guidance on evaluating the strengths and limitations of correlational methods.
Content Analysis
A practical guide to content analysis, showing students how psychologists convert qualitative information into meaningful quantitative data. Includes thematic coding activities, real-world examples, and opportunities to develop analytical and evaluative skills.
Field Experiments
A collection of engaging, classroom-tested field experiments that demonstrate how psychologists manipulate variables in natural settings. Includes ready-to-use resources, worksheets, debrief guidance, statistical links, and extension opportunities.
Quasi Experiments
Bring quasi-experiments to life with a range of practical classroom investigations based on naturally occurring variables. Includes complete activity guides, worksheets, discussion points, and opportunities to explore the challenges of establishing cause and effect.
Sampling Techniques
Turn a traditionally dry topic into an engaging lesson with a series of hands-on sampling activities. Includes simple demonstrations, classroom experiments, worksheets, and practical ways to illustrate every major sampling technique.
Content Analysis
A practical collection of content analysis investigations using social media, television, and other real-world sources. Designed to help students understand coding, thematic analysis, and the conversion of qualitative data into quantitative findings.
Case Studies
A range of engaging activities designed to demonstrate the principles of case study research. Includes classroom investigations, famous psychology case studies, discussion tasks, and opportunities to explore both qualitative and quantitative data collection.
Observations
A collection of observational research activities that can be carried out in schools, local communities, or public settings. Includes structured observation tasks, coding frameworks, reliability exercises, and ethical discussion points.
Self Report
A practical resource featuring questionnaires, structured interviews, semi-structured interviews, and student-led investigations. Includes ready-made materials, research projects, and opportunities to compare the strengths and weaknesses of different self-report techniques.
£7 Resources
Graphical Representation
Master the graphical skills required for A-level Psychology. This workbook covers frequency tables, bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, histograms, and scatter diagrams, with step-by-step guidance, worked examples, exam-style questions, and opportunities to develop interpretation and evaluation skills.
Inferential Statistics
A complete guide to inferential statistics for A-level Psychology. Students learn how to select the correct statistical test, understand significance and p-values, identify critical values, and confidently justify statistical decisions using exam-style scenarios and worked examples.
Descriptive Statistics
Everything students need to understand and apply descriptive statistics. Covers measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, calculations, strengths and weaknesses, data interpretation, and exam-style practice designed to build confidence with research methods statistics.
£12 Revision guide
Research Methods Revision Guide for A-Level Psychology
A comprehensive revision guide designed to help students master one of the most challenging areas of A-level Psychology.
Covering the full range of research methods content, this guide combines concise explanations, visual summaries, flashcard-style knowledge checks, worked examples, exam-style questions, quickfire quizzes and retrieval practice activities to support both classroom learning and independent revision.
Inside you'll find:
Complete coverage of core research methods content
Clear, student-friendly explanations of key concepts
Flashcard questions for active recall
Quickfire quizzes to check knowledge
Exam-style questions throughoutCoverage of statistics, research design, ethics, validity, reliability, sampling, data handling and more
Perfect for students preparing for internal assessments, mocks and final A-level examinations.
By Simon Westcott
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