You will be given materials to create a timeline of key educational changes since

1945.

You have 15 minutes to complete the task using scissors and glue.

If you finish, read through the books in the sociology room and through your notes for

revision purposes.

You will be aware of the key changes that have taken place in the British education system since the end of World War 2.

You will understand the form of the UK education system and recognise some of the factors that have shaped it.

To work independently in class on an assessment exercise.

To meet assessment deadlines

To understand how you will be assessed in sociology public examinations

Any answers that you write in an examination will be assessed using assessment objectives – this is a simple version of the document that the markers will be using to judge the answers that you write.

Assessment objective 1› Knowledge and understanding of

sociology› Ability to explain this knowledge in clear

English

Assessment objective 2›  Analysis and evaluation of your

knowledge and understanding

A/B grades› Candidates will display accurate and

detailed knowledge› Candidates will select evidence to back up

a point of view›  They will be able to answer the question

as it is asked in the examination

E/U grades› Some simple knowledge will be present› There will be a very basic attempt to

answer the question

To answer a question on this under examination conditions you will need to understand something about how the system of schools in Britain is organised and some of the reasons why it has developed in the way that it has.

  Attempt the following question based on the

notes that you have and your own further development and research. Try and spend 10 minutes on your answers.

 Outline and explain reasons for changes that Outline and explain reasons for changes that

have taken place in the education system. have taken place in the education system. (10 marks)(10 marks)

Suggest knowledge that you could display in your answer.

Suggest reasons for educational change

Now discuss this with your study partners Now discuss this with your study partners

(3 minutes)(3 minutes)

Educational change may take place for the following reasons:› IdeologyIdeology› EconomicsEconomics› Practical reasonsPractical reasons› Political reasonsPolitical reasons

Think about how you could use those Think about how you could use those ideas in your short account.ideas in your short account.

You have ten minutes to attempt an answer to the question that you have planned.

Starting now and counting!

Success in examination depends upon meeting criteria set by the examiner.

Careful revision is essential to success

Careful planning of answers gives you a chance to display your skills.

You can research educational change by asking people who are much older than yourself about the types of school that they attended when they were younger. This is a qualitative method

  What strengths and what weaknesses

are there in relying of people’s memories of things that happened many years ago?