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February 2024 Psychology subject update
Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Psychology February 2024 subject update.
Hello colleagues,
This update contains links to exam feedback training videos for GCSE psychology covering the 2023 papers, and an opportunity for you to request future video resources for any of our psychology courses, along with other psychology-related news.
In addition to emailing teachingpsychology@pearson.com, you can now book a Teams call with me using the link below, please don't hesitate to do so if you have a question or anything you'd like to discuss!
Best wishes,
Tim Lawrence
Psychology Subject Advisor
This update includes:
- Social Media for Edexcel Psychology Teachers: links to online communities.
- Submit your requests for student-friendly video content: to inform our production of future resources.
- Save the date: ATP Teacher Conference: in July 2024.
- AS and A Level: share your ideas for a new specification and Psychology Review magazine.
- GCSE: newly uploaded video versions of our summer 2023 exam feedback training and exemplars with the marks awarded.
- International A Level: teacher resource pack guidance and register interest for Exam Wizard.
If you use Facebook, there are teacher-run support groups for each of our courses which are great places to ask for advice and share resources - see links below.
For the International A Level course, there is a very active WhatsApp group with an associated Onedrive library of shared resources which is highly recommended.
Finally there is a Pearson support community for GCSE and A Level Psychology where we post resources and where you can comment and ask questions.
We plan to produce a series of short student-friendly Youtube videos over the coming weeks, focusing on exam tequnique and key subject knowledge for students preparing for exams in GCSE, A Level an International A Level Psychology.
Use the form below if you would like to request a particular focus, and look out for details of the videos in a future subject update.
Last summer's ATP conference at the University of Kent was a great event and we are looking forward to this year's. See below for a link to their web page giving early details of the event.
Last summer we consulted with A Level Psychology teachers regarding improvements to the assessment experience for students. We are continuing to listen to your feedback and to work on planned improvements, but we are also looking ahead now to a significant re-development of the specification. There is no definite date for this as yet, and the current specification will definitely be available for the next two cohorts, but we are keen to gather ideas from current Edexcel teachers and other interested parties regarding new specification content and assessment design.
Whether you have ideas for new topics, theories or studies to bring A Level Psychology up-to-date and to align it more closely with students' interests and concerns, or ideas about new ways of assessing students to allow them to better showcase their knowledge and skills, or anything else about a new specification, we'd love to hear from you. Please use the form linked below.
Psychology Review is a quarterly magazine aimed at A Level students. Its articles are a great way to encourage students to extend their reading and thinking around the subject, and it is tailored to the A Level courses of each of the exam boards. Article include tips on exam technique, including for Edexcel A Level Psychology.
We have recently uploaded video versions of the live exam feedback training we ran in October on the 2023 summer series. You can download all the examplars used, mark schemes and explanations of the marks awarded from the qualification page linked below, along with a pdf document with links to the videos on Youtube.
These resources are all under the 'silver padlock' meaning you will need your Edexcel Online login to access and the videos are unlisted on Youtube. This is to protect the papers for teachers who are planning on using them as mock papers later in this academic year.
We have previously advertised this resource pack, but some teachers have had difficulty making a purchse. Use the 'talk to us' link at the bottom of the linked page, and complete the contact form in order to find out more and to arrange a purchase. You can identify your local Pearson consultant using the search box on the 'talk to us' page, and they are your key contact if you need any help with the process.
Exam Wizard is Edexcel's past paper search tool and paper builder. It allows teachers (with an Edexcel Online login) to search for questions of a particular type by topic or key word. IAL Psychology is not currently supported due to the relatively low number of students taking the course and the considerable expense of uploading the questions from every exam series, however numbers are growing and we are keen to know how much demand there is for this service. If you would use Exam Wizard in your teaching and / or for creating practice assessments, please use the form below to register your interest.
Subject advisor
Tim Lawrence
Psychology and Science
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April 2024 Psychology subject update
Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Psychology April 2024 subject update.
Hello colleagues,
Good luck to your students as we approach the May/June exam season. I hope that you have managed to have some rest and relaxation recently, and that you are managing to look after yourselves as well as your students.
This update contains some general information relevant to this time of year, including some useful sources of guidance and support for students.
As usual you can find updates relating to each course in their sections below. We have re-published some of our exam feedback training videos for GCSE and A Level psychology as these may be particularly relevant to the final preparations of students for exams. Additionally there is brand new exam feedback for IAL psychology, with more to follow shortly.
Best wishes,
Tim Lawrence
Psychology Subject Advisor
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March 2024 Psychology subject update
Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Psychology March 2024 subject update.
Hello colleagues,
I hope you are well and that you find the time for some rest and relaxation shortly, despite the pressures of this time of year!
Thank you to those teachers who responded to last month's survey requesting ideas for our next UK A Level psychology specification. If you haven't yet responded to it, the link is in this update too, along with some information about AI and how we are considering its potential to support teachers with marking and feedback - there's a survey to gather your thoughts on this here too. We would welcome feedback on this from GCSE and IAL teachers too.
As usual you can find updates relating to each course in their sections below.
Best wishes,
Tim Lawrence
Psychology Subject Advisor