PSYCH212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Central Tendency, Kindergarten, List Of Fables Characters
30 Mar 2017
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Psych 212 role of education psychology and research methods. Educational psychology: primary goal: understanding & improvement of education, research focus. How students develop throughout the elementary & secondary school years. How students differ from one another in ways that affect their classroom performance. Wants to know if there are cognitive development, mental, social etc. As you progress throughout the school years, there"s different emphasis on specific things. Kindergarten report cards, is dexterity and social development. How learning & achievement can best be measured & evaluated. Identifying principles of human learning, development & behavior. Visual, audio learning, field trips, hands on in grade school. Eating problems? (no breakfast: observations, interviews, questionnaires, standardized tests, case studies. A child who has been neglected and lived in a basement: descriptive studies. Draw conclusions about the way things are in the teaching & learning environment. How often does a student with adhd get out of desk (example of frequencies) how often are they tested-
