EDPE 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables
2 Mar 2018
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Educational psychology: discipline encompassing psychological principles and theories related to learning, motivation, child and adolescent development, individual and group differences, and psychological assessment, especially as these topics relate to classroom practice. Elaboration: a cognitive process in which learners expand on new information based on what they already know. Correlational research: a research study that explores relationships among different things, enables researchers to predict one variable on the basis of their knowledge of another but not draw a conclusion about a cause-effect relationship. Descriptive research: a research study that describes situations. Such a study enables researchers to draw conclusions about the current state of affairs but not about correlational or cause-effect relationships: surveys, ethnographies (observation of a social setting over an extended. Interviews period: action research (form of descriptive research carried out by educators in their own classrooms/schools) Principle: description of how one variable influence another variable, evolves when similar research studies yield similar results over time.
