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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...simple everyday text, it provides an opportunity to exercise analytical thinking skills. The process of looking at the structure and parts of something in the way we have done here is what we mean by analysis. The text also illustrates the ideas of having a point or a case you wish to prove, and providing evidence and reasons to support it - together these form what the...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...simple terms, they believe that it is possible to quantify and therefore measure, in a research context most aspects of life. For instance: Basic descriptive statistics can often be used to describe a population by comparing, for instance, different age ranges. For example, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that around 15.1% of people aged 18 years and...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...simple example, if you invest £20 000 in a project for which you estimate that the positive net cash flow each year – that is, the excess of cash inflows over cash outflows – will be £5000, you expect to recover your initial investment in 20 000 divided by 5000 equals four years Even if the net cash flow varies year by year, it is just as simple to calculate the...
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...simple knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures. Therefore, monitoring and assessment strategies need to support students as they become increasingly independent users of the target language. For Grenfell and Harris, this means an emphasis on ‘learning to learn’ and approaching language learning from a different direction that focuses on the learner – their...
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...simple speech. It was something like 261 words in total and 205 of those were one syllable, and I love it because of that. But of course it had that terrific sound bite to die for, about government of the people by the people for the people, which is technically a work of genius. Presenter However clever the rhetoric or skilful the speaker, Tom Clarke believes that a...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...simple questions correct and use straightforward procedures. Such an interpretation is likely to be part of the poor view that society has about mathematics and many people’s reluctance to study mathematical or mathematics-related subjects at university level. As more people see mathematics as a way of thinking and modelling the world so that efficient solutions can be...
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...simple criminological question. It was recorded in 1995. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Sociology...Does prison work?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify criteria to evaluate whether prison works...Does prison work?: 1 The purpose, efficacy and regulation of prisons - Richard Sparks presents a...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...simple and unambiguous (Stasiak et al., 2012). It is designed to assess children and young people aged between 4 and 17 years old and is usually completed by a parent/guardian or teacher. You will the explore the SDQ in more detail in the next activity. Activity 3 Critiquing the strengths and difficulties questionnaire Timing: Allow about 1 hour Spend some time...