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Name of resource: Stats & research methods assessment pack
Submitted by: Aidan Sammons
Specification details: AQA-B
Other spec: 
Details: Scenario-based stats & research methods questions covering aspects of:

research methods
research design
descriptive statistics
inferential statistics

The .zip file also contains a set of example answers (not definitive) and a MS Word
.doc with a feedback grid on it.  This breaks down the Qs by area/skill and allows
you to give a smiley/flat/frowney face for each Q according to how the student has 
performed. Each Q has a reference to some reading in a major textbook that the student
can follow up on if they need to improve.  Readings are from Pennington's AS/A2 books
and Coolican's S&RM book (3rd Ed).  These can be adapted to fit your resources.

My assessment scheme is along the lines of:

Smiley - understanding  is sound and application to stimulus is appropriate.
Flat - understanding  is sound but application is absent/inappropriate.
Frowney - understanding is unsound.

My approach is to delete the follow up refs where the student has earned a 'smiley' and 
set as an improvement task the readings & modifications to answers where a 'smiley' was
not awarded.  

Clearly, you are quite at liberty to adapt this to suit your own requirements.