Dear Sarah The next blog will be on just this topic. For some reason, some teachers and students are using "To what extent..." for the IA proposal research question. However, you are quite correct - it is not really appropriate for the IA, but...
IA proposal formDear Amy I think the best way would be for the teachers to give out informed consent forms, designed by the researchers, about a week before the observation - make sure everyone being observed is 16+ so they can be signed and given back...
Practical: ObservationHi John, For Paper 2 and the Section B essay, I've noticed that when students discuss the concept of responsibility they take the unseen source at face value. For example, if the source does not state explicitly that the researchers carried...
Exam prepUnderstood! Thanks a lot!
Revision: Learning and cognition P1CHi John and Laura, I had a question about the topic of some of my students. Our experiment practical was on the effect of background music on recall and two students want to write their IAs on the same topic. Can this be done or will it be considered...
Internal assessmentThanks a lot John, very helpful.
ATL Planner: Health and well-beingSure. But I would ask the student to try to find something else if possible. A replication of the first study that is explained may not be the best example of research considering that they only need two studies and not a full review of...
Writing the introductionYes, in the old curriculum this is possible. They could explain the use of a true experiment using Wedekind.,
Wedekind (1995)Dear Sara, It is a quasi experiment as they were not randomly allocated to conditions. They were allocated "based on their baseline attention scores, to ensure the groups were as similar as possible at the start of the study."
P2B: Improving attention (Stern)
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Dear John and Laura, I just wanted to seek clarification on what is needed in the appendices - sorry if this has already been covered! I've hunted through comments and guidance and wasn't totally sure, so I just wanted to check my current understanding: Consent...
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