PSYC 3800 Chapter : Full Chapter Notes for Whole Course!
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Chapter one learning, teaching and educational psychology. 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. Teacher preparation and quality: linda darling-hammond - 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. 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. Use a range of strategies but create their own new strategies as well research-based routines for managing classes but they must also be willing and able to break from the routine when the situation calls for change.