Educational Psychology

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Americans. It challenges existing stereotypes of African Americans and offers concrete advice on approaches that are,...

This book identifies strategies that are consistently associated with good teaching and presents them within a theoretical framework that explains how they promote students' active and meaningful learning. The book promotes teachers' pedagogical...

The primary goal of instructional design is improving the quality of learning and instruction. Instructional designers have focused on a number of areas of critical concern and developed a variety of techniques to achieve this goal (Reigeluth, 1983,...

Educators are becoming aware of an ever-increasing number of students exhibiting characteristics of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) and the resulting need to develop methods of dealing with the challenges presented by this very complex...

The subject of minority children's learning has long been the concern of civic leaders, parents, scholars, and educators. The federal legislation, 'No Child Left Behind' emphasizes the concern even more. It specifically requires assessing the academic...

Ritalin is a Ciba Geigy's proprietary name for the drug Methyl Phenidate Hydrochloride, also known under other proprietary names in certain countries, including methidate, rilatine, rubifren, aktilin and centedrin. In this text, the author...

Examining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis. Psychopedagogy is the name given to this embedded theory. Through a discussion of key psychoanalytic concepts, as well as a variety of...

For more than 25 years, the pioneering research and theories of Norbert Seel have had a profound impact on educational thought in mathematics. In this special tribute, an international panel of researchers present the current state of model-based...

In a brief summary, the debate concerning the nature of writing processes is about whether the essential characteristic of expertise in writing is a matter of mastering problem-solving strategies. In this respect, the role of social and interactive...

The literature of the behavioural and social sciences is full of theory and research on learning and memory. Teaching is comparatively a stepchild, neglected by those who have built a formidable body of theories of learning and memory. However, teaching...

In this workbook companion, we expand on the strategies presented in the book by supplying need-based practical and specific strategies for implementation of a variety of other subject matters. The book provides contributions from a mix of teacher...

An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this problem have all too often resulted in "silver bullet" solutions such as reducing class size or...

This book is about the inner voice of the self. It addresses the ways students, teachers, and others speak to themselves about who they are and how they fit in the world.Book InformationISBN 9780803966956Author William W. PurkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001210Author Gary MatloffFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 644g

This book reveals how advances in computer science and human-computer interaction impact Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments. The underlying theme of the contributions is the social affordances of physical objects. The...

Making Meaning is a synthesis of theory, research, and practice that explicitly presents art as a meaning making process. This book provokes readers to examine their current understandings of language, literacy and learning through the lens of the...

The persistently increasing scale and complexity of government, of quasi public organizations, and of private organizations pose many problems in the economics of collective choice. Moreover, education as a quasi-public good has drawn ever more heavily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820457505Author Susan M. AwbreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 340g

The purpose of this series is to provide resources related to teaching and career development for faculty at all stages of their careers and to scientists considering careers in industry. Young faculty (or graduate students and post docs thinking about...

Current research demonstrates that bullying affects all children in schools, not simply the several students who may be most visibly involved in an individual incident. In order to prevent escalation or to stop the action, something different must happen...

One outcome of recent progress in educational technology is strong interest in providing effective support for learning in complex and ill-structured domains. We know how to use technology to promote understanding in simpler domains (e.g., orientation...

This volume presents a short review study of the potential relationships between cognitive neuroscience and educational science. Conducted by order of the Dutch Programme Council for Educational Research of the Netherlands Organization for Scienti c...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996548175Author Edwin FancherFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint IpbooksPublisher IpbooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990892793Author Jeffrey C RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hickory Run PressPublisher Hickory Run PressWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Making Meaning is a synthesis of theory, research, and practice that explicitly presents art as a meaning making process. This book provokes readers to examine their current understandings of language, literacy and learning through the lens of the...

This book provides effective strategies that can be used to improve academic achievement and well-being of minority students. It examines, collectively, three cultural groups on themes related to diverse families, immigration issues, and teaching and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939195626Author Sylvia O RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Parent Child Press, IncorporatedPublisher Parent Child Press,...

This book is an outstanding account of the current state of using writing in service of learning. It presents psychological and educational foundations of writing across the curriculum movement and describes writing-to-learn practices implemented at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595153886Author Sid JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm * 31mm

Cooperative learning is widely endorsed as a pedagogical practice that promotes student learning. Recently, the research focus has moved to the role of teachers' discourse during cooperative learning and its effects on the quality of group discussions...

The literature of the behavioural and social sciences is full of theory and research on learning and memory. Teaching is comparatively a stepchild, neglected by those who have built a formidable body of theories of learning and memory. However, teaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999503423Author Patricia Ann BrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Functional Fitness, L.L.C.Publisher Functional Fitness, L.L.C.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979580512Author Michelle FattigFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Flower by the Water PublishingPublisher Flower by the Water PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book deals with the elements of educational psychology, such as the nature and development of human behavior, adjustment, learning, and counseling.Book InformationISBN 9780837152417Author Asahel Davis WoodruffFormat HardbackPage Count 617Imprint...

This monograph reports the findings of four separate but related studies of the comparative learning performance of retarded and normal children. Using intellectually retarded and normal subjects of similar mental age, the investigators examined their...

Shows the reader how to be a solution-focused educator, creating students who control their own choices and behaviours. Within each chapters the reader will find language lessons, practice scenarios, conversation worksheets, student worksheets, and many...

This truly international volume includes a selection of contributions to the Second Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (Kiel, Sept. 1999). It provides a state-of-the-art examination of science education research in Europe,...

Recent developments in telecommunications have led to new developments in tele-services, particularly tele-health and tele-education, for the benefit of those living in either the developed world or the less developed world. The benefits accrue to...

Essential to the treatment of learning and behavioral disabilities is an understanding of the cognitive processes brought into play in educational contexts, how they contribute to problems in learning and behavior, and how these processes might be...

Restructuring Schools presents conceptual and empirical models of school organization for promoting students' achievement. Papers by nationally recognized educational sociologists examine four dimensions of the educational process-school organization...