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Educational Psychology
- Steven R. Wininger - Western Kentucky University, USA
- Antony D. Norman - East Tennessee State University
- Bruce W. Tuckman
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January 2025 | 480 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Educational Psychology distills the latest research into actionable steps, guiding students in building solid, evidence-based teaching plans as they prepare to enter the classroom. Employing a meta-cognitive approach, it encourages them to think about their dual role as both teachers and learners, understanding not just "what" to do in the classroom, but the "why" behind it. Motivation is a central theme, with the authors providing a practical framework to help teachers enhance student motivation and connect it to key themes and concepts throughout the text. Rather than taking an encyclopedic approach, the authors group chapters by topic, enabling readers to remember concepts and connect best practices to big ideas in educational psychology. By blending scholarship with application through vignettes, examples, case studies, and practical teaching strategies, this text equips students to be both methodical and creative in their future classrooms.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: The Study of Educational Psychology
Chapter 2: Cognitive and Language Development
Chapter 3: Moral, Personal, and Psychosocial Development
Chapter 4: Learner Diversity in the Classroom
Chapter 5: Learners with Exceptionalities
Chapter 6: Behavioral Approaches to Learning
Chapter 7: Cognitive Approaches to Learning
Chapter 8: Metacognition, Problem Solving, and Creativity
Chapter 9: Group Processes in Instruction
Chapter 10: Motivating Learners
Chapter 11: Effective Learning Communities
Chapter 12: The Design of Instruction
Chapter 13: Classroom Assessment of Student Learning
Chapter 14: Standardized Assessment and Grading
This book reflects contemporary changes in American education while providing reference to the past and a glimpse into the future.
Lewis University
Strong coverage of technology and its impact on learners and learner development. Students pursuing teacher certification pathways and students who are not find this text applicable and useful to their future career aspirations.
University of Maine at Augusta
Covers a lot of material in a highly readable way. Students would be able to understand the writing level.
Berry College
A generally well-constructed and useful text that could replace the Woolfolk text currently standardized by the department.
Augsburg University
This book has many great questions that you can use to provoke students to think or use to invite them to the content.
University of Northern Colorado
This book is a new and innovative text to use in a 100 level Educational Psychology course. I would use this book instead of the books I have been assigning.
Hartwick College
Nice emphasis on deliberate connections to classroom teaching practices throughout the chapter. Also, very nice touch to frame the book around becoming a teacher. Glad to see the introduction speak about maintaining a classroom environment rather than using the controlling term of ‘management.’ Classroom connection vignettes are effective and relevant. Effective job explaining and differentiating facts, principles and theories. ...Similarly, different methods of research are effectively summarized and differentiated. And again, the inclusion of the table is very helpful.
South Dakota State University
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