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We have updated our GCSE following the outcomes of the Ofqual consultation, ready for first teaching 2020. We have kept things simple by keeping many aspects the same but have taken the opportunity, based on teacher feedback, to make some improvements too, including extra guidance in our specification. Please visit our new J277 page to find out more about our updated qualification.

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GCSE - Computer Science (9-1) - J276 (from 2016) - OCR

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We have updated our GCSE following the outcomes of the Ofqual consultation, ready for first teaching 2020. We have kept things simple by keeping many aspects the same but have taken the opportunity, based on teacher feedback, to make some improvements too, including extra guidance in our specification.

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2. Flashcards. Flashcards are a very familiar tool used by students. Crucially, however, too many students fail to use them for effective self-testing - (only 30% in this research). Clearly, we need to train students to design, or find, effective revision flashcards, before then training them in their use. Students should also beware dropping flashcards they think they know.

3. Graphic organisers. Students need to be active in revision, not just reading their notes and doing some colouring in with a rainbow of highlighters. Graphic organisers are a handy vehicle to get students reconstructing their revision topics, making meaningful links and connections (in cognitive science, this is labelled the 'generation effect').

4. Cornell note-taking. Another strategy that utilises the ' generation effect' is the well-known note-taking approach: the Cornell method. Named after the US university, this strategy gets students thinking metacognitively, asking questions, noting key terms, and summarising the content being revised.

5. Exam wrappers. This helpful feedback strategy, labelled ' exam wrappers' because they wrap around information on how the student has revised, offers important information for the teacher to help diagnose how effective, or extensive (or not), revision has proven. Also, it can prove a good way to help puncture student over-confidence in their revision. See these online examples HERE and you can find a useful Word template HERE.

6. 'Just a minute'. A long time favourite strategy of mine, 'Just a Minute' takes the classic radio game and adapts it to almost any topic, text, or examination revision term. Put simply, students have to talk for a minute on the given term/topic - no pauses, no hesitations. Slips or repetitions or micro pauses lose a 'life' - three strikes and you're out. This strategy harnesses the 'self explanation effect'. In short, if you can elaborate on a topic and explain it well, you have retrieved it from memory - a good revision act - as well as likely consolidating it too.

7. 'Prepare to teach'. Similar to ' Just a Minute', the ' Prepare to teach' strategy involves the common idea of getting students to teach a peer a topic/term from their revision. Once more, it gets students to elaborate on their knowledge. Even expecting to teach appears to have a positive impact on students learning material, so this seemingly inconsequential tweak can have very beneficial effects.

8. 'Select, elect'.Another revision strategy that gets students thinking hard about their revision is ' Select, Elect '. In simple terms, you get students to 'select' the most salient facts, ideas, concepts, or terms, from a given revision topic, before then asking them to 'elect' what they deem the most significant knowledge or idea/concept that they need to understand for their examination. This gets students actively engaging with their revision material, whilst being metacognitive about what is the most salient information they need to remember.

9. Topic ranking. Remember that students are often not the best judge of their own revision and how effective it may or not be. By getting students to rank their own knowledge of their topics being revised, they deploy the important metacognitive strategy of evaluating their learning. Though they will likely be inaccurate - indeed overoptimistic - in their judgments of their knowledge and learning, it still helps students better calibrate their revision and monitor their ongoing progress.

10. Past questions. Ok, so no rewards here for originality: students need to practice examination questions, over and over, well spaced over time. The effect of exploring worked examples or exam answers, as well as writing their own, helps students process, practice and refine their revision to meet the parameters of exam success.

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2. Flashcards. Flashcards are a very familiar tool used by students. Crucially, however, too many students fail to use them for effective self-testing - (only 30% in this research). Clearly, we need to train students to design, or find, effective revision flashcards, before then training them in their use.

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