AQA Psychology for A Level & AS – Practicals Workbook

Out now!

This new workbook provides full coverage of the AQA specification for research methods along with practical activities to help students properly understand what research methods are all about.

  • Includes clear explanations of all research methods topics, including strengths and weaknesses.
  • Based on the principle of ‘doing’, each content spread is followed by a related practical to complete in class and/or for homework.
  • The workbook uses a spiral curriculum – revisiting topics to enable a deeper understanding each time.
  • Exam-style questions and MCQs help students assess their knowledge.
  • Tips are given for ‘top marks’, based on what examiners are looking for in answers.
  • Links are provided to specification-related psychological studies covered in our best-selling AQA Psychology student books.
  • Answers to the exam-style questions are provided free on the Resources and Downloads tab.

Take a look! A selection of draft pages is available to download now on the Resources and Downloads tab.

AQA Psychology for A Level & AS – Practicals Workbook Boost eBook

Boost eBooks are interactive, accessible and flexible. They use the latest research and technology to provide the very best experience for students and teachers.

This new workbook provides full coverage of the AQA specification for research methods along with practical activities to help students properly understand what research methods are all about.

  • Includes clear explanations of all research methods topics, including strengths and weaknesses.
  • Based on the principle of ‘doing’, each content spread is followed by a related practical to complete in class and/or for homework.
  • The workbook uses a spiral curriculum – revisiting topics to enable a deeper understanding each time.
  • Exam-style questions and MCQs help students assess their knowledge.
  • Tips are given for ‘top marks’, based on what examiners are looking for in answers.
  • Links are provided to specification-related psychological studies covered in our best-selling AQA Psychology student books.
  • Answers to the exam-style questions are provided free on the Resources and Downloads tab.

EPQ Toolkit for AQA: A Guide for Students (Updated Edition)

This bestselling and hugely popular ‘EPQ Toolkit for AQA’ is a highly practical, colourful, magazine-style guide that provides support, advice and guidance for students carrying out their independent extended project work.

  • It will support students through the whole EPQ journey, from helping to choose their project to planning, developing and executing both the production log and the final product.
  • It offers a framework for developing the skills students need to succeed, including research, critical thinking, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and presentation skills.
  • Numerous exemplars of student projects help illustrate good and bad practice helping them to improve their final mark.
  • An EPQ Moderator, with extensive experience of AQA’s EPQ, provides invaluable hints, tips and advice throughout giving your students extra confidence as they work independently and succeed with their project.
  • All of the AQA assessment objectives are covered chapter by chapter.
  • There are a wide range of activities with answers provided at the end of the book.
  • The guide provides the resources and ideas for Supervisors to deliver the taught element of the EPQ and successfully guide students from start to finish.

FREE teacher PowerPoint presentations providing a scheme of work to support the 30 hours taught element are available to accompany this book. Click on the Resources and Downloads tab to access them

EPQ Toolkit for AQA: A Guide for Students (Updated Edition) Boost eBook

Boost eBooks are interactive, accessible and flexible. They use the latest research and technology to provide the very best experience for students and teachers.

This bestselling and hugely popular ‘EPQ Toolkit for AQA’ is a highly practical, colourful, magazine-style guide that provides support, advice and guidance for students carrying out their independent extended project work, and is now available as a Boost eBook.

  • It will support students through the whole EPQ journey, from helping to choose their project to planning, developing and executing both the production log and the final product.
  • It offers a framework for developing the skills students need to succeed, including research, critical thinking, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and presentation skills.
  • Numerous exemplars of student projects help illustrate good and bad practice helping them to improve their final mark.
  • An EPQ Moderator, with extensive experience of AQA’s EPQ, provides invaluable hints, tips and advice throughout giving your students extra confidence as they work independently and succeed with their project.
  • All of the AQA assessment objectives are covered chapter by chapter.
  • There are a wide range of activities with answers provided at the end of the book.
  • The guide provides the resources and ideas for Supervisors to deliver the taught element of the EPQ and successfully guide students from start to finish.

AQA Media Studies for A Level Year 1 & AS – Student Book

A new edition of this Student Book along with a brand new book for the Close Study Products will be available in May, from Hodder Education. Click here for details and to pre-order.

This Student Book offers high quality support you can trust.

  • Approved by AQA
  • Written by experienced Media Studies teachers and examiners.
  • Knowledge, understanding and skills are developed through the textbook and presented in a highly accessible way.
  • Includes practical approaches to developing skills, and contemporary case studies of media industries throughout.
  • The Non-Examined Assessment is supported with a chapter containing clear, student-focused guidance.
  • Contains practical suggestions for effective ways to deliver the subject content.
  • Designed for students of all ability levels with extension questions and tasks to stretch and challenge the most able learners.

NB Revised pages covering the targeted close study product case study The Missing are available to download on the Resources and Downloads tab.

AQA Media Studies for A Level Year 2 – Student Book

A new edition of this Student Book along with a brand new book for the Close Study Products will be available in May, from Hodder Education. Click here for details and to pre-order.

This Student Book offers high quality support you can trust.

  • Approved by AQA
  • Written by experienced Media Studies teachers and examiners.
  • Knowledge, understanding and skills are developed through the textbook and presented in a highly accessible way.
  • Includes practical approaches to developing skills, and contemporary case studies of media industries throughout.
  • The Non-Examined Assessment is supported with a chapter containing clear, student-focused guidance.
  • Contains practical suggestions for effective ways to deliver the subject content.
  • Designed for students of all ability levels with extension questions and tasks to stretch and challenge the most able learners.

AQA Media Studies for A Level Revision Guide

This combined A Level Revision Guide, covers content for both A Level Year 1 and A Level Year 2.

  • Written by an experienced Media Studies teacher and senior examiner and presented in a clear and straightforward way making it accessible and easy to use.
  • Contains just the right amount of detail students need to recap and revise the key content from the course.
  • Provides examples of detailed analysis across the nine media forms using the theoretical framework and a selection of both the targeted and in-depth CSPs.
  • Offers advice and guidance on approaching the various types of questions students may encounter in the exams.

AQA Media Studies for A Level Year 1 & AS – Revision Guide

Designed to complement the AQA Media Studies for A Level Year 1 and AS Student Book, this practical and concise Revision Guide supports students preparing for their AQA AS Media Studies assessment.

  • Written by an experienced Media Studies teacher and senior examiner and presented in a clear and straightforward way making it accessible and easy to use.
  • Contains just the right amount of detail students need to recap and revise the key content from the course.
  • Provides examples of detailed analysis across the nine media forms using the theoretical framework and a selection of both the targeted and in-depth CSPs.
  • Offers advice and guidance on approaching the various types of questions students may encounter in the exam.

WJEC/Eduqas Religious Studies for A Level & AS Key Thinkers: Ethics

An essential companion to help students master one of the most important areas of their Religious Studies course in Ethics: knowing the key thinkers.

  • Provides an overview of each thinker’s life and their ideas, with key dates, social context and why they are important.
  • Helps students understand the thinkers’ main arguments and how they justified their approach to ethics, allowing students to evaluate the theories them for themselves.
  • Exam guidance section in each chapter provides a focus for revision and includes advice on how different types of questions could be tackled.
  • Encourages students to explore each area of scholarly knowledge required by the specification, from grasping key ideas to knowing how to best criticise a thinker’s approach.
  • Puts ideas and theories into contemporary contexts to help students build their evaluation skills.
  • Timeline displaying an overview of the key dates for each thinker in relation to world events.
  • Key thinkers covered include Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes and Jeremy Bentham.

Contents

  1. Robert Adams
  2. Aristotle
  3. Max Stirner
  4. H. Bradley
  5. A. Prichard
  6. J. Ayer
  7. Thomas Aquinas
  8. John Finnis
  9. Bernard Hoose and Richard McCormick
  10. Joseph Fletcher
  11. Jeremy Bentham
  12. John Stuart Mill
  13. Augustine
  14. John Calvin
  15. John Locke
  16. Ivan Pavlov
  17. Thomas Hobbes
  18. Pelagius
  19. Arminius
  20. Jean-Paul Sartre
  21. Neuroscientific perspectives: Angela Sirigu et. al.
  22. Carl Rogers

WJEC/Eduqas Religious Studies for A Level & AS Key Thinkers: Philosophy

Coming Spring  2024

An essential companion to help students master one of the most important areas of their Religious Studies course in Philosophy: knowing the key thinkers.

  • Provides an overview of each thinker’s life and their ideas, with key dates, social context and why they are important.
  • Helps students understand the thinkers’ main arguments and how they justified their approach to philosophy, allowing students to evaluate the theories them for themselves.
  • Exam guidance section in each chapter provides a focus for revision and includes advice on how different types of questions could be tackled.
  • Encourages students to explore each area of scholarly knowledge required by the specification, from grasping key ideas to knowing how to best criticise a thinker’s approach.
  • Puts ideas and theories into contemporary contexts to help students build their evaluation skills.
  • Timeline displaying an overview of the key dates for each thinker in relation to world events.

AQA Psychology for A Level & AS: Your Guide to Exam Success!

Whether your students are aiming for an A* or a C this guide is a friend to keep with them from the start to the end of their course.

  • Written by Cara Flanagan, the UK’s leading and most trusted author for A Level Psychology.
  • Put the advice into practice and it will help your students get the grade they deserve.
  • You and your students can use this Guide regardless of your choice of student book.

A message from the author:

“In my life I have been a student, teacher, mother, examiner, speaker and author. All of these have given me ample opportunity to reflect on what to do in exams – I have taken them (with reasonable success), I have taught all sorts of subjects (maths, computer science, psychology) and helped students to exam success, I have guided my own children through them, I have marked thousands of A level papers and also been involved in writing exam papers, I have spoken at student conferences about how to achieve exam success, and I have written many book chapters and magazine articles on exams. In this book I am going to tell you everything I have learned.”

Cara Flanagan

What’s in ‘Your Guide to Exam Success!’?

Chapter 1: The specification
Looking at what the words in the specification actually mean and how they translate into exam questions.

Chapter 2: The exam and skills required
All you need to know about how the different skills are examined and what you need to do to develop these skills.

Chapter 3: Research methods and mathematical content
If you attain full marks on these questions, you have almost achieved a pass mark on this content alone.

Chapter 4: Understanding how exam answers are marked
An insight into the examining process so you can provide the right kind of answers.

Chapter 5: Studying and revising
Little and often. Helping you make a plan that can be adapted and revisited until it works for you.

Chapter 6: Aiming for A*
Life is what you make it.

Chapter 7: Taking the exam
How to use your time wisely in the weeks leading up to the exam, and also in the exam itself.

Chapter 8: Mock exams
One for AS and one for A level.  Mark schemes, suggested answers and examiner comments are provided in the Resources and Downloads tab.

References and answers.

WJEC/Eduqas Religious Studies for A Level Year 1 & AS – Philosophy of Religion & Religion and Ethics

 A new edition of the Philosophy of Religion Student Book, covering AS and A-level, along with new editions of Religion & Ethics and Christianity will be available in the autumn from Hodder Education. Click here for details and to pre-order.

Written by experienced teachers and authors with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at A Level and AS, this endorsed Student Book provides fantastic support for your students.

  • Endorsed by WJEC/Eduqas, offering you high quality support you can trust.
  • A skills-based approach to learning, covering content of the specification with examination preparation from the start.
  • Developing skills feature focuses on what to do with the content and the issues that are raised with a progressive range of AO1 examples and AO2 exam-focused activities.
  • Questions and Answers section provides practice questions with student answers and examiner commentaries.
  • It provides a range of specific activities that target each of the Assessment Objectives to build skills of knowledge, understanding and evaluation.
  • Includes a range of features to encourage you to consolidate and reinforce your learning.