PS268 Study Guide - Educational Psychology, Social Desirability Bias, List Of Fables Characters
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Educational psychology: use of research and theory to inform educational practices. Goals: improve educational practices and understand learning. Belief: confidence in an understanding of an ultimate reality. Opinion: thoughts and feelings about an issue, causal or informal. Fact: something known to be true or to have occurred. Poverty linked with school achievement (resources, unstable family, nutrition, motivation, health) Purpose of teaching: create expert learners: learn how to learn, teach students about, themselves, requirements of learning tasks, strategies needed, contexts in which to apply learned information. Goals: life long learners, self- regulated learners. Why theories: use interrelated concepts to explain body of data, converging evidence. Scientific methods include: problem, hypothesis, data, conclusions, revise theory. Quantitative: conduct statistical analyses: correlational research: describe strengths of relations, not a causal connection. Qualitative: explore themes regarding specific or general experiences: experimental research: claims about causes, require randomized control group, quasi-experimental research: make claims about cause without randomized control and treatment groups.
