Psychology Factsheets: Buy or DIY?

A couple of months ago this blog featured examples of Sociology Factsheets created and sold by the Curriculum Press and this month it’s the turn of Psychology, of which I’ve found the following examples:

Eyewitness Testimony: New Research

Gifted Children

Stress at work

Eating disorders

Biological and psychological models of abnormality

Nature-Nurture debate

The Cognitive approach to psychology

Day Care

Offender Profiling

As with their sociological counterparts the basic design rules are relatively simple:

short topic notes focused on key knowledge points

illustrative examples

overviews of advantages and disadvantages

exam tips

short “test yourself” questions

There are around 200 Factsheets currently available – and their web site does some good deals on subscription purchases – but an alternative is to get your students to make their own.

All you need is some simple DeskTop Publishing software and a little bit of planning and guidance from you…