tutor2 Psychology – Weekly Update

Just because the summer holiday has arrived, it doesn’t mean that the tutor2u psychology team have stopped preparing for next term. Here’s an update on what happened last week:

Webinars

Last week, we launched a range of new research methods webinars to help you prepare for those tricky Year 2 topics, including:

• Revisiting the sign test
• How to teach probability and significance
• Making students REALLY understand the difference between Type I & Type II errors
• Creative ways to teach Levels of Data
• How to choose the right statistical test and using the ‘decision tree’
• How to teach non-parametric tests of difference: Wilcoxon & Mann-Whitney
• How to teach parametric tests of difference: Related t-test & Unrelated t-test
• How to teach tests of correlation: Spearman’s Rho & Pearson’s r
• How to teach the Chi-Squared test

Why not sign up to one, or more today and get ready to Master Research Methods. A Level Psychology Free Teacher CPD Webinars

Jobs

In addition, last week we advertised three new vacancies to further develop our provision for psychology students and teachers. Applications for these positions have already started flooding in, however these positions will continue to be advertised, so if you’re interested in getting involved, do get in touch.

For more information, click here or email: joseph@tutor2u.net

Blogs

As usual, we also posted a range of interesting and varied blog posts by our dedicated contributors, including:

• Updated map of the human brain hailed as a scientific tour de force – Joseph
• Pokémon: “gotta catch them all” & the craze behind it all – Shareen
• The Stroop Test – Laura
• Thinking 'I can do better' really can improve performance - Laura

Daily Digest

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