EDUC 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Educational Psychology, Gr 5, Psychology Today
3 Dec 2015
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Researchers have reported findings that suggested that wealth and social status, not teaching, were the major factors that determine who learned in schools. One purpose of educational psychology: to go beyond individual experiences and testimonies to systematically examine the impact of teaching on the lives of students by using carefully designed research studies. Teacher-student relationships hamre and pianta (2001) followed 179 children in a small school district from the time they entered kindergarten through to the end of gr 8. Teacher preparation and quality darling-hammond (2000) examined the ways in which teacher qualifications are related to student achievement using data from several us-based sources, including a survey of policies in the 50 states, case study analyses. Findings indicated the quality of teachers as measured by whether the teachers were fully certified and earned a major in their teaching field was related to student performance.
