Endorsed resources

We want teachers to have access to a wide range of different styles and types of resources to support their students’ learning.

Endorsed resources have undergone a stringent quality check by an expert reviewer to make sure they have sufficient breadth or depth of coverage of a specification, unit or topic so that the resources can form a good basis for your planning and teaching. If the resources meet the endorsement criteria they will be listed on our website. In addition, endorsed resources will bear our endorsement logo and a statement about their endorsement.

Any publisher can submit their resources for endorsement, and both publisher partners and non-partners go through exactly the same process. We charge a fee for this to cover our costs only and we arrange for the resource to be reviewed by a paid expert reviewer.

The information below explains the different types of endorsements and how we work with publishers.

• Download our Endorsed resources - A guide for publishers.

We will endorse textbooks, ebooks and digital resources that are designed to support the teaching and learning of a specification. The different categories of endorsement are below.

We will not endorse resources that focus primarily on revision or assessment preparation.

An OCR endorsed textbook

Textbooks and etextbooks which substantively support a specification at unit/component/module level or above may be eligible for endorsement. This type of resource will bear our logo with the statement: A textbook endorsed by OCR.

An OCR endorsed teaching and learning resource

Digital or print resources which support at least one entire topic of a specification at topic level or above may be eligible for endorsement. This type of resource will bear our logo with the statement: A teaching and learning resource endorsed by OCR.

How to submit a resource for endorsement

Please download and complete both the self-assessment form and the relevant proposal form:

• Self-assessment form
• Teaching and learning resources proposal form
• Textbooks and etextbooks proposal form.

Where to find endorsed resources

If there are endorsed resources available to support one of our qualifications, they will appear on the qualification page under the heading, 'Textbooks and endorsed resources'.

We appoint a publisher partner for many of our qualifications, particularly GCSEs, AS and A Levels. These are mainly major educational publishers and are usually selected by open tender. We do this to ensure that teachers have at least one good textbook/set of resources for first teaching.

Publisher partners work closely with our subject specialists and have access to the new specifications that they support during their development. They do not, however, get any preferential treatment when it comes to the endorsement of their resources.

On some occasions, we do establish commercial relationships with publishers, where we pay for the development of a resource. This is usually where it is not financially viable for the publishers to invest in production of these resources themselves, or where they provide some technical expertise that we do not have ourselves.