Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part one. Educational psychology: some background
  • Chapter 1. Educational psychologyʹs purposes and methods
  • Chaper 2. The tasks, standards, and objectives of teaching
  • Part two. Student characteristics
  • Chapter 3. Cognitive abilities
  • Chapter 4. The development of cognition, language, and personality
  • Chapter 5. Human diversity and the schools: culture, gender, and exceptionality
  • Part three. Learning and motivation: theories and applications
  • Chapter 6. Behavioral and social views of learning
  • Chapter 7. Cognitive learning: processes and strategies to make meaning
  • Chapter 8. Motivation and learning
  • Part four. Teaching methods and practices
  • Chapter 9. Lecturing and explaining
  • Chapter 10. Teaching small groups: the discussion method and cooperative learning
  • Chapter 11. Individual instruction
  • Chapter 12. Classroom teaching: the orchestration of methods
  • Part five. Assessment
  • Chapter 13. Basic concepts in assessment and the interpretation of standardized testing
  • Chapter 14. The teacherʹs assessment and grading of student learning
  • Appendix standard deviation
  • Glossary
  • Author-reference index
  • Subject index