PSYC 3800 Study Guide - Final Guide: Relational Aggression, Discrepancy Theory, In Essence
11 Mar 2014
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1a) what is meant by educational psychology results are obvious. As gare suggested, school boards, committees and foundations need to be convinced before they are willing to spend money. As a result some people therefore assume that spending time and money studying educational psychology seems sort of redundant. We see the results of so much research and not the hard work that researchers go through to get such results. We must remember that therefore a statement that may initially seem factually obvious actually has to have quite a lot of research to back it up. 1b) provide example of research finding that may seem obvious. Skipping grades- should bright students be able to skip grades. Common- sense answer: no. likely to be misfits and wouldn"t be physically/emotionally ready for class. According to samuel kirk, children who have been accelerated have adjusted as well as or better than children of similar ability who have not been accelerated.
