Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Visualizing Mathematics
The Role of Spatial Reasoning in Mathematical Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This unique volume surveys recent research on spatial visualization in mathematics in the fields of cognitive psychology and mathematics education. The general topic of spatial skill and mathematics has a long research tradition, but has been gaining attention in recent years, although much of this...
Memory Practices and Learning
Interactional, Institutional and Sociocultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Memory and learning are seen as mental phenomena and generally studied as brain processes, for example, within various branches of psychology and neuroscience. This book represents a rather different tack, based on sociocultural theory, cultural psychology and dialogism. Authors from many different disciplines...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that:
* represents diverse theoretical perspectives;
* includes solid empirical evidence testing the validity of these perspectives; and
* shows...
Teacher Motivation
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Teacher Motivation: Theory and Practice provides a much needed introduction to the current status and future directions of theory and research on teacher motivation. Although there is a robust literature covering the theory and research on student motivation, until recently there has been comparatively...
Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching
Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“The title promises ideas for effective teaching, and the book delivers on this promise in clear, compelling, and believable prose. This is a book for educators, for policy makers, for parents, and even for presidents.” —From the Foreword byRobert Calfee, professor emeritus, Stanford...
Theories of Learning for the Workplace
Building blocks for training and professional development programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Workplace and professional learning, lifelong learning, adult learning, learning in different contexts have become of more and more interest and now dominate all aspects of 21st century life. Learning is no longer about ‘storing and recall’ but ‘development and flow’.
Theories of Learning...
Awakening Children's Minds
How Parents and Teachers Can Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Parents and teachers today face a swirl of conflicting theories about child rearing and educational practice. Indeed, current guides are contradictory, oversimplified, and at odds with current scientific knowledge. Now, in Awakening Children's Minds, Laura Berk cuts through the confusion of competing...
Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment
A Practical Handbook A Volume in the EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
The Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment is a practical guide for educational and psychological professionals using norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral assessment of children. Written by key individuals involved in the construction and evolution of the most widely...
by Suzanne Smythe, Cher Hill, Margaret MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research, six educational researchers explore together the potentialities of transdisciplinary research that de-centres human behaviour and gives materiality its due in the making of educational worlds. The book presents accounts of what happens when researchers...
by Susan Louise Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Early Childhood Report Writing is written to help professionals and college students with report writing on young children. The focus of the book, Early Childhood Report Writing is to help professionals and college students have some examples of how the child’s personal information can be described...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
During the past 30 years, researchers have made exciting progress in the science of learning (i.e., how people learn) and the science of instruction (i.e., how to help people learn). This second edition of the Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction is intended to provide an overview of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This edited volume with selected expanded papers from CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2009 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) addresses the main issues concerned with problem solving, evolving learning processes, innovative pedagogies, and technology-based educational applications...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Handbook of Epistemic Cognition brings together leading work from across disciplines, to provide a comprehensive overview of an increasingly important topic: how people acquire, understand, justify, change, and use knowledge in formal and informal contexts. Research into inquiry, understanding,...