Experimental Methods in Psychological Research

The first in a trilogy of related psychology research methods films (the second looks at Non-Experimental Research Methods and the third goes “Behind the Statistics”

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A2 Psychology: Research Methods Free Chapter

One of the simple pleasures of Wandering the Web™ for a living, made all the more enjoyable by that intangible sense of the unexpected (I

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Media Methods

One of the obvious ways to study the media is through Content Analysis and a classic – if now somewhat dated – application of the

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Teaching A-level Research Methods: Part 3

Talk the Walk At this point students need to get to grips with learning the basics of research methods. How you organise this is up

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Teaching A-level Research Methods: Part 2

Virtual Research in a Real Location The idea here is that we use students’ knowledge of a real location as the basis for virtual research:

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Teaching A-level Research Methods: Part 1

A few years ago I was asked to deliver a Conference on “Sociology and the Internet” to teachers interested in learning more about what was

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Methods in Context: Crime and Official Statistics

While the validity of Official Crime Statistics has long been questioned, their reliability has tended to be assumed. Recent pronouncements by the ONS, however, suggest

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Experimental Research Methods

Our latest Psychology On-Demand compilation brings together 3 short films designed to clarify and consolidate the meaning of experimental methods by looking at the different

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Research Methods: Experiments

If you’re looking for contemporary examples of experiments with sociological applications, this recent study might be useful at both AS (Culture and Identity) and A2

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GCSE Sociology: Terms and Concepts Visualised

Free online Introductory Sociology Flipbook aimed at GCSE students. As you may be aware – I may have mentioned it once or twice – I

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