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New Series!

Essential GCSE ICT

This NEW series of Essential ICT titles covers the 2010 GCSE specifications for WJEC, AQA and OCR, giving students all they need to achieve their potential during the courses!

Written by Stephen Doyle, the titles in this NEW series cover the 2010 GCSE ICT specifications for WJEC, AQA and OCR, and the WJEC textbook has been officially endorsed. Giving students all they need to achieve their potential during the courses, this series is designed to help them transfer their understanding of the subject into improved exam performance.

Key Features

The Textbooks

  • Highly illustrated double-page spreads that provide information in an appealing and engaging style.
  • Up-to-date, dynamic case studies to help students link theory with practice.
  • Integrated assessment support designed to help boost grades.
  • Plenty of exam-style questions and test-yourself activities to prepare students for their GCSE examinations.
  • Vital key terminology, clearly defined with summary mind maps for every topic in the course.
  • Extension activities to boost higher understanding and application of knowledge for more-able students.

The Teacher's Guides

  • A wide range of interactive activities contained in the CD-ROM to reinforce and summarise key points of learning.
  • Customisable PowerPoint® presentations that help explain topics and add further information to the material contained in the textbook.
  • Activities to reinforce the use of key terminology.
  • Lower-ability support materials and worksheets for whole-class teaching in both pdf and customisable Microsoft Word® formats.
  • Multiple choice tests and answers.
  • Answers to all the questions in the book.
  • All the digital material can be uploaded to a VLE.

The Test and Assessment Tool will produce individual and class reports for you to use at parents’ consultation evenings and to help with formal school reporting.

  • Easy to set up and easy to use.
  • Ideal for busy teachers.
  • Developed in association with practising ICT classroom teachers.
  • Huge range of differentiated questions covering all areas of GCSE ICT.
  • The ability to set tests based on one topic, a range of topics or the whole course for revision sessions.
  • Run reports on an individual student or a whole class to produce your own “markbook” – a real time-saver at parents’ evenings.
  • Ideal for tracking students’ progress in ICT - a key OFSTED issue.
  • Online, so accessible anywhere, anytime.
  • Perfect to use alongside Folens Essential GCSE ICT textbooks but usable by anyone following any of the 3 syllabuses.

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Series components

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  • 3 x Student's Books
  • 3 x Teacher's Guides
  • 9 x Test & Assessment Tool

Title
ISBN
Price
Availability
Quantity
Essential GCSE ICT for AQA - Student's Book
9781850085430
£18.99
Publ. Due 09 Apr
Essential GCSE ICT for OCR - Student's Book
9781850085454
£18.99
Publ. Due 29 Jun
Essential GCSE ICT for WJEC - Student's Book
9781850085416
£18.99
In Stock
Essential GCSE ICT for AQA - Teacher's Guide
9781850085447
£149.99
Publ. Due 24 May
Essential GCSE ICT for OCR - Teacher's Guide
9781850085461
£149.99
Publ. Due 19 Jul
Test and Assessment Tool for AQA (Large Schools) 2-year subscriptions
9781850085676
£249.99
Publ. Due 20 Jun
Test and Assessment Tool for AQA (Medium Schools) 2-year subscription
9781850085669
£199.99
Publ. Due 20 Jun
Test and Assessment Tool for AQA (Small Schools) 2-year subscription
9781850085652
£149.99
Publ. Due 20 Jun
Test and Assessment Tool for OCR (Large Schools) 2-year subscription
9781850085706
£249.99
Publ. Due 20 Jun
Test and Assessment Tool for OCR (Medium Schools) 2-year subscription
9781850085690
£199.99
Publ. Due 20 Jun
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Essential GCSE ICT for AQA Student's Book


"Exceptionally well structured. It covers all of the relevant material at exactly the right level. The images are well chosen and generally well integrated, although I often feel that images are used in textbooks to make it look good and that these are often a missed opportunity and should be referred to more within the text (as well as a label).


I like the extension activities, the range of questions and tasks and the text. There is something for everyone.


This is a superb textbook - so well written that I am going to review the exam board I am choosing next year - or is there an EDEXCEL one coming?" - Philip Usher, mid-production review - February 2010

Stephen Doyle


Stephen Doyle is a well-known and highly regarded author for ICT at secondary level in the UK. Since the 10s, Stephen has taught computing and ICT in schools and colleges across the country. After 25 years of teaching, examining and assessing ICT at all levels in schools and FE colleges, he has unrivalled experience and understanding of the challenges teachers face in delivering the subject – as well as the most effective ways for students to study it.