Helping Gabe With a Psychology Essay

Today, Gabe came to me and asked for help with psychology, because he wants to re-write his long answer question from the mock exam, so that he can get a better grade. I have helped him write LAQ's (long answer questions) before, and I noticed what his basic problems were. He tended to struggle between the differences in outlining the method of a study, verses the procedure. However, today when I looked at what he wrote for his mock exam, he was able to write down a method... the only problem was, he identified the wrong variables and small things like that (but he still got a method down, instead of a procedure, which was a big plus from when I last helped him.) I helped him to correctly identify the variables of the study he chose, and he was able to explain to me why those were the correct variables. Then, we discussed the most important part of LAQ's- evaluation. He was good at identifying strengths and weaknesses, we just needed to work a bit on how they tied more directly into the study. 

We also briefly went over a short answer question which he was going to re-write today, and he informed me that he got 6 out of 8 marks on it, which is very good. I think I am going to help him more with te LAQ tomorrow though as well.