EdPsych Modules

• Research is updated throughout the text and includes over 740 new references across the 25 modules.
• The Fourth Edition features the same 25 modules within eight themed units but with important updates, including:
  • Expanded discussion of gender identity offers future teachers important information for their students. (Module 3). 

  • Research on new technologies—including virtual reality and artificial intelligence—as they relate to moral development (Module 4), self-efficacy and vicarious learning (Module 9), and reading comprehension and writing skills (Module 11).

  • Updated neuroscience research on executive functioning, reading, and math (Module 5)

  • Discussion of the importance of desirable difficulties for better long-term memory (Module 10) and transfer (Module 12)

  • Updated research on effectiveness of note-taking by longhand and typing (Module 11)

  • Revised and expanded coverage of response to intervention for identification of specific learning disabilities and updated research-based approaches to remediating reading and math disabilities (Module 21)

    
    

KEY FEATURES:

• The modules and case studies are designed to work as standalone content and can be combined or organized in any order.
  
• The case approach and the extensive pedagogy that supports it allows students to continually see the applications of the theories and research that they are studying.
  
• The book contains coverage of traditional Educational Psychology topics, such as cognitive development and instructional methods, as well as more contemporary topics such as the role of the brain in learning and response-to-intervention.
  
• The book offers more in-depth coverage of topics only minimally covered in chapter textbooks such as constructivist teaching approaches, intelligence, grouping practices, and metacognition.
• Diversity—characteristics such as sex, gender, race, language, disability status, and socioeconomic background—is woven throughout each module as it treated not as a separate topic but as a facet of most instructional situations. 
• A table of diversity coverage indicates where coverage of diversity appears throughout the modules.
• Assess questions at the end of each case study prompt students to assess their existing knowledge and to identify assumptions, preconceptions, and personal beliefs prior to reading a particular module.
  
• Reflect and Evaluate questions at the end of each module are based on the case studies at the beginning of each unit and encourage students to check their comprehension of important concepts, to apply what they have learned about the research presented in the modules, and to evaluate the situations and instructional decisions presented in the case.
  
• Applications sections help students tie theory and research to educational practice. Coverage is focused on evidence-based teaching methods and principles that are linked to research.
  
• Personal touches are integrated throughout the textbook, in addition to many other real-life examples from the authors’ research and collaboration with schools, providing students with knowledge that is truly grounded within authentic educational contexts.