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Name of resource: Describing studies (AFL activity)
Submitted by: Aidan Sammons
Specification details: AQA-B
Other specifications: all
Guidance:

Activity around describing research studies.  Students are asked to rank five sample
descriptions of the Asch conformity study according to their quality and then identify
the features that make each better/worse than the others.  These ideas are then used to 
construct a mark scheme which they can then use to guide their own writing and assess
their own work.  

I introduce this activity in the last 20mins of a lesson, give them three descriptions of 
studies to write as homework and then start the next lesson by getting them to use the 
markscheme to assess each others' work and decide on their own targets for improvement.  

AFL-tastic.