I am also re-taking this paper next week, not sure if this will entirely help but for our G544 exam our teacher gave us this sheet;
12 steps to writing an A2 procedure and I think basically if you follow this then you should be fine as long as you remember to evaluate each point you make. The sheet basically suggests the following and I have also added various points you may consider to help you;
For full marks your procedure must be fully replicable, ethical and practical.Check: Go back to the research question you have chosen and any instructions you have been given. eg; are you being asked to use independant measures? Are you being asked to collect ordinal data?
Practical: Make sure your proposal is going to be practical and time efficient. You should be describing a simple procedure that is easy to follow using realistic timings, sample etc.
REMEMBER you will impress the examiner with the precision of your description, not the complexity of your ideas.
Sample: Who are the participants (two or three bits of detail), how many, where were they sampled (city centre, park etc) and how were they sampled (opportunity, random etc)?
Where: Where is the research taking place? How will the participants get to the setting? How will the participants know where the setting is? Do they go individually or are you testing them in groups? (obviously this will not apply to all types of questions that they ask eg; IF you were conducting an observation then participants may not be aware of their taking part in the study. If you take the example above 'Describe and Evaluate a suitable procedure for an observational study' you could say: I chose a covert observation because participants do not know that they are being watched therefore this increases validity as they are more likely to produce natural behaviour as oppose to being socially desirable and producing demand characteristics.
Experimental Design: Are you using repeated measures, independent measures or matched pairs? If you are using the latter two, how are your participants allocated into conditions? When will each condition be conducted? How will conditions be scored and compared? Exactly how are IVS manipulated and DVS measured? (Sometimes the question may specifically ask you to describe and evaluate another way in measuring the DV or may ask you to use one of the above designs.
Observation: What categories are you observing? Are you using overt or covert observations? Are you using time sampling, event sampling or point sampling? How is data collected? ( questionnaires? coding schemes?)
Draw a sketch of your observation grid to make it clear.
Correlation: If you are conducting a correlation, you will ONLY be using repeated measures (each participant needs two scores). How is each data for each variable collected? Remember you could use a test, observation or self - report, but the simplest ideas are the most effective.
Self-report: If you are conducting a questionnaire or interview, how many questions will you use? Describe these questions and give at least three examples. Make sure closed questions show the options/ratings availabe to participants even if it is just yes/no. How long will participants be given to complete questionnaires? How are they completed and how are they returned? How will questionnaires be scored?
Instructions: What exactly should be done? What instructions should be given to participants? Remember to include exact timings eg; times for a test in an experiment, to complete a questionnaire in a self-report, or time (minutes or seconds) participants were observed for. This should be step by step and detailed.
Equipment: What equipment will you need for your procedure? (Pens, papers, stopwatches etc)
Data collection and analysis: Is the data qualitative or quantitative? What level of data will you produce (ordinal, nominal etc.) How will your data be analysed? (Chi sq, Spearmans rho etc.)
Ethics: How have you ensured that your procedure is ethical? eg; are participants protected from harm, have they been told of their withdrawal rights? If you deceived participants at the start of the study, have you debriefed them at the end?
Remember to always refer back to the question (context) when possible. You also don't need to include all of the above but if you vaguely mention them; write one or two sentences on each but put emphasis on the question itself eg; if it asks you to describe and evaluate a suitable experiment then talk more about the experiment; sample, design, data collection, ethics, equipment etc but no need to mention observation, correlation however you could always write a sentence saying another suitable method for this experiment could be ....?
I hope this helps
I also have some top band model answers for the 10 marker questions that our college has put on our school website which I could upload onto here if you wish? Let me know.