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Educational Psychology: Developing Learners, 3/e

Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, University of Northern Colorado and University of New Hampshire

Published July, 1999 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

Copyright 2000, 773 pp.
Paper Bound w/CD-ROM
ISBN 0-13-013648-4

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Summary

This text is appropriate for courses in Introduction to Educational Psychology. This widely used text is known for its exceptionally clear and engaging writing, its in-depth focus on learning, and its extensive concrete applications. Its unique approach helps students understand concepts by encouraging them to examine their own learning and then showing them how to apply these concepts as teachers. The book concentrates on core concepts and principles and gives students an in-depth understanding of the central ideas of educational psychology. Its six chapters on learning, and the large amount of material to help students understand how they themselves learn, differentiates this text from others in the field.

Features


NEW—Groundbreaking technology with an interactive simulation CD that comes packaged with the text.

  • Provides students with a rich multimedia learning experience.
NEW—Expanded coverage of: Vygotsky, language development, intelligence, facilitating procedural knowledge, and working with parents.
  • Provides the latest coverage of theory and practice.
NEW—Added chapters on: Learning in the Content Areas, Promoting Learning Through Student Interactions, and Students with Special Educational Needs.
  • Readers will gain knowledge on how students learn in certain environments and when faced with special issues. NEW—New sections on: Critical thinking, apprenticeships, guided participation, setting events, behavioral momentum, positive behavioral support, direct instruction, self-regulated learning, and lesson plans.
  • Provides the latest coverage of theory and practice.
NEW—A Companion Website.
  • Helps instructors manage their course and keeps students abreast of the latest issues and topics in the field and updates related to the text. Also acts as an interactive study guide for students, helping reinforce their learning.
More coverage of learning than any other introductory educational psychology text—six chapters (Ch. 6-11).
  • Provides in depth coverage of the core topics of this course. A unique focus on helping college students understand their own learning—Experiencing Firsthand exercises embedded throughout the book.
  • Helps students discover important points firsthand and learn to construct a more complete, meaningful understanding of educational psychology.
A unique integrated coverage of diversity and inclusion— Discussions of student diversity and students with exceptionalities are integrated into every chapter.
  • Helps students work with all students.
Consistently applies concepts and principles to classroom practice—Applications can be found in Into the Classroom features, in application margin notes, in integrated case studies, embedded scenarios, and all of the summarizing charts throughout the book.
  • Helps students apply theory.
A unique focus on core concepts and principles—As evidenced in the Principles/Assumptions tables.
  • Helps students better comprehend how students learn.


Table of Contents
    1. Educational Psychology and Teacher Decision-Making.
UNDERSTANDING STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSITY.
    2. Cognitive and Linguistic Development.
    3. Personal, Social, and Moral Development.
    4. Individual and Group Differences.
    5. Students with Special Educational Needs.
II. UNDERSTANDING HOW STUDENTS LEARN.
    6. Learning and Cognitive Processes.
    7. Knowledge Construction.
    8. Higher-Level Thinking Skills.
    9. Learning in the Content Areas.
    10. Behaviorist Views of Learning.
    11. Social Cognitive Views of Learning.
    12. Motivating Students to Learn.
III. UNDERSTANDING INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESSES.
    13. Choosing Instructional Strategies.
    14. Promoting Learning through Student Interactions.
    15. Creating and Maintaining a Productive Classroom Environment.
    16. Assessing Student Learning.
    Appendix A: The Seven Themes of the Book.
    Appendix B: Describing Relationships with Correlation Coefficients.
    Appendix C: Interpreting Standardized Test Scores.
    Glossary.
    References.
    Name Index.
    Subject Index.

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