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Essentials of Educational Psychology: Big Ideas To Guide Effective Teaching, 5th edition
Published by Pearson (September 18, 2020) © 2018
- Jeanne Ellis Ormrod University of Northern Colorado (Emerita)
- Brett D. Jones Virginia Tech
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BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction to Educational Psychology
- Learning, Cognition, and Memory
- Complex Cognitive Processes
- Learning in Context
- Motivation and Affect
- Cognitive Development
- Personal, Social, and Moral Development
- Instructional Strategies
- Strategies for Creating an Effective Classroom Environment
- Assessment Strategies
DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction to Educational Psychology
- Using Research Findings to Make Instructional Decisions
- Developing as a Teacher
- Strategies for Learning and Studying Effectively
- Learning, Cognition, and Memory
- Thinking and Learning in the Brain
- Learning as Active Construction
- How Human Memory Operates
- Why Learners May or May Not Remember What They Have Learned
- Promoting Effective Cognitive Processes
- Supporting Optimal Brain Functioning
- Remembering the Limitations of Attention and Working Memory
- Encouraging Effective Long-Term Memory Storage Processes
- Facilitating Retrieval
- Monitoring Students’ Progress
- Complex Cognitive Processes
- Self-Regulation and Metacognition
- Effective Self-Regulated Learning
- The Roles of Metacognition
- Transfer
- Problem Solving and Creativity
- Critical Thinking
- Promoting Self-Regulation Skills and Metacognitive Development
- Creating a Classroom Environment that Nurtures Complex Processes.
- Self-Regulation and Metacognition
- Learning in Context
- Immediate Stimuli as Context
- Social Interaction as Context
- Culture, Society, Technology and Academic Domains as Contexts
- Culture as Context
- Society as Context
- Technology and Media as Contexts
- Academic Content Domains as Contexts
- How Learners Modify Their Environments
- Providing Supportive Contexts for Learning
- Encouraging Productive Behaviors
- Providing Physical, Social, and Technological Support for Effective Cognitive Processes
- Taking Students' Broader Cultural and Socioeconomic Context into Account
- Motivation and Affect
- The Nature of Motivation
- Basic Human Needs
- Cognitive Factors in Motivation
- Affect and its Effects on Motivation and Learning
- Promoting Motivation and Productive Affect
- Strategies That Empower Students
- Strategies That Demonstrate the Usefulness of Activities
- Strategies That Foster Success
- Strategies That Stimulate Interest
- Strategies That Show and Promote Caring
- Strategies That Generate Productive Affect for Learning
- Cognitive Development
- General Principles of Development
- Developmental Processes
- Trends in Cognitive Development
- Intelligence
- Addressing Students' Developmental Needs
- Accommodating Developmental Differences and Diversity
- Fostering Cognitive Development in All Students
- Personal, Social, and Moral Development
- Personality and Sense of Self
- Peer Relationships
- Social Cognition
- Moral and Prosocial Development
- Promoting Personal, Social, and Moral Development
- Fostering Personal Development
- Encouraging Effective Social Cognition and Interpersonal Skills
- Promoting Moral Reasoning and Prosocial Behavior
- Supporting Students Who Face Exceptional Personal or Social Challenges
- Instructional Strategies
- Planning Instruction
- Conducting Teacher-Directed Instruction
- Conducting Learner-Directed Instruction
- General Instructional Strategies
- Strategies for Creating an Effective Classroom Environment
- Creating an Environment Conducive to Learning
- Expanding the Sense of Community Beyond the Classroom
- Reducing Unproductive Behaviors
- Addressing Aggression and Violence at School
- Assessment Strategies
- Using Assessments for Various Purposes
- Guiding Instructional Decision Making
- Diagnosing Learning and Performance Problem
- Determining What Students Have Ultimately Learned from Instruction
- Evaluating the Quality of Instruction
- Promoting Learning
- Enhancing Learning through Classroom Assessment Practices
- Important Qualities of Good Assessment
- Informally and Formally AssessingStudents' Progress and Achievements
- Conducting Informal Assessments
- Designing and Giving Formal Assessments
- Evaluating Students’ Performance on Formal Assessments
- Summarizing Students' Achievement with Grades and Portfolios
- Assessing Students' Achievement and Abilities with Standardized Tests
- Using Assessments for Various Purposes
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