With relevance to the Australian context, this text addresses universal issues facing teachers wherever they are in the world with a strong nexus between theory and practice. The text emphasises educational implications and applications of research on human development, cognitive science, learning, motivation, teaching and assessment.
Elizabeth Pemberton, University of Delaware The breadth of this text is more comprehensive than many other Educational Psychology textbooks I have considered.
The Handbook of Educational Psychology, Second Edition provides an indispensable reference volume for scholars, teacher educators, in-service practitioners, policy makers and the academic libraries serving these audiences.
Educational Psychology in the Classroom
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Wong, L. (2012). Essential study skills (7th ed.). Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. Yildiz, E., Akpinar, E., Tatar, N., & Ergin, O. (2009). Exploratory and confirmatory fac— tor analysis of the metacognition scale for primary school ...
By calling into question and reconceptualizing traditional models, this text illuminates an exciting new frontier in educational psychology.
It spells out the way in which new thinking determines new practice, and the extent to which progress has been made. The book will be of interest to teachers, psychologists as well as to students of pedagogy and psychology.
Several types of mnemonics have been extensively studied by educational and cognitive psychologists. ... Then, the individual would form a vivid mental image in which the first word in the list he or she is studying and the first peg ...
When this classic book was first published in 1926, L.S. Vygotsky was well on his way to becoming one of the leading intellectuals in Russia.
Unlike other texts, this book of major readings is an anthology of primary-source readings selected for students entering the teaching profession and for teachers interested in examining learning and development.