An important element of your IA is stating and operationalising the IV and the DV in the null and research hypothesis. The research hypothesis is a prediction of the relationship between these variables. It is NOT a conclusion about what has already been found, but a...
An important topic of the option the Psychology of Human Relationships is Social Responsibility. Two areas of content are studied in detail: by-standerism and prosocial behaviour. The murder in New York of a woman called Kitty Genovese first raised questions about how...
Professor Zhao, a top US-based academic, has stated that countries should ignore the international Pisa league tables – which provide a comparison of how well 15-year-olds in different countries perform in reading, maths and science – because they fail to measure what...
The debate over whether we should or should not open more grammar schools has been featured in almost every national newspaper over the last few weeks. Theresa May and her education secretary, Justine Greening, are considering opening more grammar schools and...
I read an article recently that suggested we need to revolutionise the education system through the creation of subject centres and hub schools, with children attending a range of different centres according to subject choices. The author argues that instead of having...
Creative skills are just as important as technical ones, but there seems to be more effort being made by governments to encourage young people to take up technical routes, especially in STEM subjects. In fact, in the UK, over 100,000 people signed a petition against...
