EDPE 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Individualism, Object Permanence, Proportional Reasoning
18 Oct 2017
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Education psychology: a discipline encompassing psychological principles and theories related to learning, motivation, child and adolescent development, individual and group difference, and psychological assessment, especially as these topics relate to the classroom. Descriptive study: a research study that describes situations. Such a study enables researchers to draw conclusions about the current state of affairs but not about the correlation or cause-effect relationship. Correlation study: a research study that explores relationships among variables and allows to predict one variable on the basis of their knowledge of another but not to conclude about the cause-effect. Experimental study: a study that involves the manipulation of one variable to determine the effect on another variable leading to a conclusion about the cause- effect. Principles: a description of how one variable influences another variable. It evolves when similar research studies yield similar results time after time. This leads to the development of theories (explaining the why).
