OCR A level (H046-H446) SLR 18 – Thinking abstractly

It includes:

• Student Learning Record (A3 version in word)
• Student Learning Record (PDF version)
• Student Learning Record (PowerPoint version)
• Student Learning Record (Exemplars)
• Set of student activities and workshops with answers
• Answers to the exam questions from the back of the SLR
• Teacher Marking Checklist
• Year 13 Recap Lesson

This topic covers:

H046

• 2.1.1 a-d Thinking abstractly

H446

• 2.1.1 a-d Thinking abstractly

Specific knowledge required for AS and A Level:

• Candidates need to understand the term abstraction and its purpose in the design and creation of computer programs.
• Candidates need to understand the benefits of abstraction and apply these benefits to a specific scenario.
• Candidates may be given a scenario and be asked how abstraction can be applied to it, how it has been applied or how further abstraction can be applied.
• Candidates need to have an understanding of how reality differs to abstraction and understand the differences between reality and abstraction.
• Candidates may be given a scenario/example and be asked how the abstraction differs from the reality.