1) What is Educational Psychology?

2) Goal

1) Applying knowledge and methods of psychology to study teaching and learning.

2) To improve the teaching and learning processes

Who were:

1) William James

2) Stanley Hall

3) John Dewey

1) Founded the field of Psychology

2) Founded the Americna Psychological Association

3) Is considered the father of the Progressive Education Movement

What are Descriptive Studies?

Ethnography?

Participant Observation?

Their purpose is to describe events in a particular class or or classes.

Studying natural events in the life of a group and understand the meaning to the people involved.

Researcher uses Participant Observation and work within the class to understand perspectives of students.

1) What are Correlations?

2) Positive/Negative Correlations?

3) Experimental Studies?

1) Relationship between two events or measurements.

2) Positive: two factors increase/decrease together.

ex. height/weight

Negative: increase in one factor/decrease in the other.

ex. number of beers drank/ability to drive

3) Study cause and effect with comparable groups of subjects using a random procedure to assign groups.

1) What are Single-Subject Experimental Studies?

2) Microgenetic Studies?

1) Determine effects of therapy, teaching method, or other intervention.  Ex. ABAB experiment (observe, assess, observe, assess)

2) Study cognitive processes in the midst of change - as the change is happening.

1) What is a Principle?

2) Theory?

1) Principles: an established relationship between two or more factors.  Will give you help with specific problems

2) Theory: Attempts to explain and make predictions. Will give you a new way of thinking about problems.

1) Show deep content knowledge

2) Know teaching strategies

3) Use curriculum materials

4) Employ techniques to teach subject-specific knowledge

5) Know characteristics of learners

6) Vary learning settings

7) Have clear goals and purposes