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Educational Psychology (col11302)
Maintainers: Kelvin Seifert, Jared Adler, Global Text Project, Daniel Williamson
Keywords: assessment, Bloom's taxonomy, classroom, classroom communication, educational psychology, instructional strategies, standardized testing, textbook
Summary: A comprehensive educational psychology textbook, written by Kelvin Seifert and Rosemary Sutton, for the Global Text Project. Topics covered include student development and diversity, classroom communication and assessment, and much more.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 92.74%
Revised: 2011-05-11
Revisions: 2
The learning process: Major theories and models of learning (m38002)
Maintainers: Kelvin Seifert, Jared Adler, Daniel Williamson, Global Text Project
Keywords: accommodation, assimilation, behaviorism, bloom's taxonomy, bruner, cognitive theory, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, constructivism, curriculum, discrimination, extinction, extrinsic motivation, generalization, intrinsic motivation, metacognition, operant conditioning, psychology, reinforcement, respondent conditioning, schema, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, vygotsky
Summary: An overview of the major theories and models of learning from a psychological perspective, with a discussion of bloom's taxonomy, conditioning, reinforcement, metacognition, and more.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 73.13%
Revised: 2011-05-06
Revisions: 2
Student motivation: TARGET: a model for integrating ideas about motivation (m37756)
Maintainers: Kelvin Seifert, Jared Adler, Global Text Project, Daniel Williamson
Keywords: authority, autonomy, Carole Ames, evaluating, grouping, recognition, sustaining focus, TARGET, task, time
Summary: This module covers a model called TARGET by Carole Ames, which is a list of elements of effective motivation for students that can help achieve the goal of sustaining focus in the classroom.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 72.62%
Revised: 2011-05-05
Revisions: 2
Conceptual change: Definition (m41308)
Author: Michael Orey
Maintainers: Jared Adler, Daniel Williamson, Global Text Project, Michael Orey
Keywords: cognitive conflict, conceptual change, conceptual framework, educational psychology, theoretical origins
Summary: A module covering the definition of conceptual change in education, business, and industry.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 61.26%
Revised: 2011-10-12
Revisions: New
Student development: Cognitive development: the theory of Jean Piaget (m37641)
Maintainers: Kelvin Seifert, Jared Adler, Daniel Williamson, Global Text Project
Keywords: cognitive development, concrete operational stage, conservation, decenter, dramatic play, formal operational stage, hypothetical reasoning, Jean Piaget, metacognition, object permanence, preoperational stage, reversibility, sensorimotor stage
Summary: This module contains a description of the different stages of learning (by age) and their aspects based on the theory of Jean Piaget.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 59.88%
Revised: 2011-05-05
Revisions: 2
Classroom management and the learning environment: Preventing management problems by focusing students on learning (m37507)
Maintainers: Kelvin Seifert, Jared Adler, Global Text Project, Daniel Williamson
Keywords: classroom, classroom space, computers in the classroom, focusing student on learning, management, overlapping, procedures, routines, rules, wall space, withitness
Summary: A discussion of how to focus students on learning in order to prevent management problems. This may involve arranging classroom space, display and wall space, choosing how and when to use computers, deciding how visible student interaction will be in the classroom, how to make spacial arrangements, how to establish ... more topics.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 57.24%
Revised: 2011-05-05
Revisions: 2
The nature of classroom communication: Communication in classrooms vs communication elsewhere (m37983)
Maintainers: Kelvin Seifert, Daniel Williamson, Jared Adler, Global Text Project
Keywords: body language, classroom communication, communication, content talk, control talk, non-verbal communication, procedural talk, structures of participation, unintended communications, verbal communication
Summary: A module introducing the importance of a discussion about classroom communication and describing the different types of classroom communication and how they may differ from communication outside the classroom environment.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 55.08%
Revised: 2011-05-06
Revisions: 2
Standardized and other formal assessments: Understanding test results (m37622)
Maintainers: Jared Adler, Kelvin Seifert, Global Text Project, Daniel Williamson
Keywords: central tendency, frequency distributions, grade equivalent scores, measurement theory, normal distribution, range, standard deviation, standard score, stanines, test results, z-score
Summary: A discussion of measurement theory in order to establish a good method for understanding standardized test results.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 54.97%
Revised: 2011-04-20
Revisions: New
Standardized and other formal assessments: Basic concepts (m37577)
Maintainers: Daniel Williamson, Kelvin Seifert, Jared Adler, Global Text Project
Keywords: achievement tests, american college test, aptitude test, PLT Tests, profiling skills and abilities, Scholastic assessment test, standardized tests, subject assessments
Summary: Four scenarios of students experiencing standardized testing hurdles. Then, this module covers the basic concepts of standardized testing: when to use them, what context to use them in, how to look for the strengths and weaknesses of your students, and types of standardized tests.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 54.50%
Revised: 2011-04-20
Revisions: New
Classroom management and the learning environment: Chapter summary and references (m37506)
Maintainers: Kelvin Seifert, Jared Adler, Global Text Project, Daniel Williamson
Keywords: classroom, classroom management, consequences, misbehavior, preventing problems, responding to problems, student learning, students
Summary: A summary of topics in classroom management, including external links, a list of references used, and a list of key terms.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 52.64%
Revised: 2011-05-05
Revisions: 2
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