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A Level Critical Thinking for OCR is a brand new course for a brand new A Level. All of the AS and A2 Student Books will inspire your critical thinkers and provide support for you as a specialist or non-specialist in Critical Thinking. AS Level Critical Thinking for OCR Unit 1 covers the first unit of AS Critical Thinking. * This brand new course covers the complete range of topics in the right amount of detail. * The AS Student Book for Unit 1 offers up-to-date, topical examples and scenarios covering current affairs and moral, social, ethical and philosophical issues to make Critical Thinking really come alive for your students. * This Student Book is differentiated to meet the needs of all your students' abilities by providing examples and activities that practise each skill at different levels. * Exam hints, revision tips, model answers, mark schemes and feedback help your students' fully prepare for their exams.
All of the AS and A2 Student Books will inspire your critical thinkers and provide support for you as a specialist or non-specialist in Critical Thinking.
All of the AS and A2 Student Books will inspire your critical thinkers and provide support for you as a specialist or non-specialist in Critical Thinking.
The text is tailor made to the current OCR specification, giving the best chance of success in exams. It includes stimulating source material, engaging activities and exams tips and key terms designed to help the student achieve success and aid the learning process.
The File also includes: differentiated activities for students suggested answers for the Student Book and Planning and Delivery Resource File activities teaching strategies a breakdown of common problems students face when getting to the grips with the course.
Builds students' understanding and provides ready-prepared lesson solutions to develop confidence and exam skills. This full colour workbook provides stimulus materials on all the topics, followed by sets of questions designed to develop and test skills in the unit. Using the workbook saves valuable preparation time and expense, with self-contained exercises that don't need photocopying and also provides instant lesson solutions for specialist and non-specialist teachers. - Unit and topic specific exercises build knowledge and confidence - Workbooks can be used in class or for homework - Additional exam-style questions help students put what they have learnt into practice ready for the unit exam, with answers online at www.hodderplus.co.uk/philipallan/workbooks Special school prices available for multiple purchases, see www.hoddereducation.co.uk/Schools/philipallan/Student-Workbooks.aspx for details
Dr Roy van den Brink-Budgen has been developing assessment materials in Critical Thinking for eighteen years, and has been teaching it for ten. His significant contribution to the development of the subject as one of growing importance in the curriculum is well-known. Roy has also probably taught more INSETs for staff in Critical Thinking than anyone else in the country. His previous book Critical Thinking for Students became the most widely-used textbook in the subject, commended by both teachers and students on many courses. He lives in Ipswich, UK. In one volume it covers: Unit 1. Credibility of evidence; how context can affect credibility; issues of perception, language, interpretation, and judgement; different types of evidence; results of bias; possible weaknesses and strengths; using a credibility calculus; judging a case. Unit 2. Assessing and developing argument; differences between arguments and other forms of persuasion; what forms arguments can take; the nature of conclusions; assumptions and evidence; evaluating arguments; special kinds of argument content; producing arguments. CONTENTS: In one volume it covers - Unit 1. Credibility of evidence how context can affect credibility issues of perception, language, interpretation, and judgement different types of evidence results of bias possible weaknesses and strengths using a credibility calculus judging a case. Unit 2. Assessing and developing argument differences between arguments and other forms of persuasion what forms arguments can take the nature of conclusions assumptions and evidence evaluating arguments special kinds of argument content producing arguments.
