Psychology

We’ve created pilot Understanding Standards courses for National 5 and Higher Psychology – available on SQA Academy – to test the concept of using SQA Academy to present candidate evidence and commentary materials in a more interactive format. 

We invite you to try one of the courses and share your feedback with us through our short online survey. 

Take part in our trial

Each course features existing candidate evidence and commentary materials for the Psychology question paper. We’re keen to hear about your experience of completing an online course and how this compares to using the published candidate evidence and commentaries. 

Access the courses.

For this trial, you only need to complete one online course for National 5 or Higher Psychology – you don’t need to complete both levels. 

You can access the courses from our SQA Academy website (log-in needed). If you don’t have an account, you can create one from the log-in page.

Share your feedback

Once you’ve completed the National 5 or Higher course, please take a few minutes to share your feedback with us through our short online survey. 

Complete the survey.

Your feedback will help us determine if we should develop this format for other subjects in the future.

The survey will close on Friday 13 June. 

Both courses will continue to be available on SQA Academy after the trial period ends. 

Centres need to apply for approval before delivering the qualification for the first time, and must consider the resources that are available to them to do this.

To deliver this qualification in the next academic session, and in order for candidates to be certificated in August the following year, centres must apply for approval by the end of September of the previous year (for example, the deadline for applications for approval must be submitted by September 2022 in order to deliver and certificate the qualification by August 2023).

Subject-specific information:

Centres must demonstrate that teachers and lecturers delivering/assessing Psychology have completed at least two years successful study of Psychology at University or Higher National Diploma (HND) level (minimum SCQF level 8), including the study of research methods.

Find out more about our approval process