OCR's website http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/171400-as-a-level-history-summary-brochure.pdf (British History) CO-TEACHABLE WITH A LEVEL – BUT WITHQUESTIONS SET AT A DEMONSTRABLYLOWER STANDARD (FOR EXAMPLE,USING FEWER SOURCES, AND WITH LESSDEMANDING MARK SCHEMES) and (Non-British History) The content will be the same as in theA Level units,
"Both AS and A-level courses provide strong stand-alone qualifications that are fully co-teachable so that you can choose the approach that best suits you and your students’ needs."
Co-teachable is just a made-up word by Gove/Morgan to ask the impossible. Co-teachable schmoteachable as far as I'm concerned.
Well, much as I'd like to be diplomatic, you are simply wrong. In all new A Levels, the content of the first year of the full A Level and the AS are identical. Any other system would be unworkable.
Well, much as I'd like to be diplomatic, you are simply wrong. In all new A Levels, the content of the first year of the full A Level and the AS are identical. Any other system would be unworkable.
Well, much as I'd like to be diplomatic, you are simply wrong. In all new A Levels, the content of the first year of the full A Level and the AS are identical. Any other system would be unworkable.
They are not identical! Identical is an exact reflection! And this system is unworkable, thank you for noticing. Westminster decided this four years after they imposed the new rules.
They are not identical! Identical is an exact reflection! And this system is unworkable, thank you for noticing. Westminster decided this four years after they imposed the new rules.
I don't know what you are talking about. Can you give a single example of an A Level course where the AS and Year 1 are not the same? The two you gave clearly do not support your position.
I don't know what you are talking about. Can you give a single example of an A Level course where the AS and Year 1 are not the same? The two you gave clearly do not support your position.
They do. The sample exam papers for the AS and A Level History are not congruent. Q.E.D.
Westminster decided this four years after they imposed the new rules.
Not sure who you mean by Westminster - the school? parliament? but the rules are new and haven't been in existence for anything like 4 years. You appear to have no idea what you are talking about.
They do. The sample exam papers for the AS and A Level History are not congruent. Q.E.D.
Of course they are not going to be identical. The AS papers are what you can cope with after one year, the A Level papers after two . But the *content* of the AS is identical to the *content* of the first year of the A Level.
Not sure who you mean by Westminster - the school? parliament? but the rules are new and haven't been in existence for anything like 4 years. You appear to have no idea what you are talking about.
I'm talking about parliament and the law they passed to bring the new G.C.S.E.s and A Level "reforms" was about four years ago now. It is only being introduced now but specifications must be prepared two years before teaching!
Of course they are not going to be identical. The AS papers are what you can cope with after one year, the A Level papers after two . But the *content* of the AS is identical to the *content* of the first year of the A Level.
Page 56: Unit Y214: France 1814–1870 Page 57: Unit Y215: Italy and Unification 1789–1896 Page 58: Unit Y216: The USA in the 19th Century: Westward expansion and Civil War 1803–c.1890 Page 59: Unit Y217: Japan 1853–1937
And just to clarify, on page 41, it says: "Centres should choose one of the twenty-four units available in this unit group." (There are many more than the four that you have pointed out.)
History does give schools a lot of choice as to what they want to study, but this is nothing to do with the AS / full A Level issue (or rather, non-issue).
But these are all different units. Page 56: Unit Y214: France 1814–1870 Page 57: Unit Y215: Italy and Unification 1789–1896 Page 58: Unit Y216: The USA in the 19th Century: Westward expansion and Civil War 1803–c.1890 Page 59: Unit Y217: Japan 1853–1937 And just to clarify, on page 41, it says: "Centres should choose one of the twenty-four units available in this unit group." (There are many more than the four that you have pointed out.) History does give schools a lot of choice as to what they want to study, but this is nothing to do with the AS / full A Level issue (or rather, non-issue).
I think you mistake me. The page numbers I'm referring to are at the bottom of the page. Both are the same unit: Cold War in Asia.
OCR's website http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/171400-as-a-level-history-summary-brochure.pdf (British History) CO-TEACHABLE WITH A LEVEL – BUT WITH QUESTIONS SET AT A DEMONSTRABLY LOWER STANDARD (FOR EXAMPLE,USING FEWER SOURCES, AND WITH LESS DEMANDING MARK SCHEMES) and (Non-British History) The content will be the same as in the A Level units,
Co-teachable doesn't mean the same. It means that you can teach both courses at once to put all students in one class. Not the same = different.
Not the same = different.Co-teachable doesn't mean the same. It means that you can teach both courses at once to put all students in one class. Not the same = different.
But you were claiming earler in the thread that the A Level is completely different to the AS, and that if you studied the AS, you would then have to study another two year course to take the A Level. This is clearly not the case. If you've studied the AS, you have studied the first year of the A Level. It really is that simple, and all of the specifications (including the ones that you refer to) support this.