PSYC 3800 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sigmund Freud, Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget
8 Dec 2015
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Chapter one learning, teaching and educational psychology. Learning and teaching today educational psychology the study of development, learning, and motivation that takes place in and out of schools. Diversity presents both challenges and opportunities to schools and communities. Early research findings = wealth and social status determined who learned in schools. Measures of teacher preparation and certification were by far the strongest predictors of student achievement in reading and mathematics teachers who are teaching outside their field, the lower their students" achievement tends to be. Reflective-thoughtful and inventive: think back over situations to analyze what they did and why, consider how they might improve learning for their students. The role of educational psychology educational psychology the discipline concerned with teaching and learning processes; it applies the methods and theories of psychology and has its own as well. In the beginning: linking educational psychology and teaching.
