Welcome to LC History: Preparing for the New Research Study Report. This short course has six lessons of about 25 minutes. You know your history; this course is about the report your first fifth years under the new specification begin when the State Examinations Commission (SEC) issues its brief.

In this first lesson you rate your confidence, see the report as the specification sets it out and what is not yet published, and study a two-year planner with the unset dates left open. Then you note where a practice inquiry fits in your fifth year. Lesson 6 ends with your own plan for the research study, which a Coding Ireland tutor reviews. Your survey, reflections and plan across the six lessons compile into a downloadable Professional Learning Portfolio when you finish.

Before the presentation, rate your confidence on the five areas this course develops. There are no right answers. You will rate the same five statements at the end of the course, so you can compare each rating with your first.

Watch this presentation on the new Research Study Report: the specification and its two assessment components, the report as the specification sets it out, what is not yet published, and planning the two years with the unset dates left open.

Study this two-year planner, filled in for an invented class starting the new specification in September 2027, with the dates the SEC has not set left open. Read the notes on each line.

Download the blank planner to use with your own class: Two-year planner (Word).

Use the planner you have just studied to start on your own fifth year. Download the blank template if you want it beside you: Two-year planner (Word). On screen, answer one question. It saves to your Professional Learning Portfolio as Before the Brief.