Textbook:EducationalPsychology: Theory and Practice (5th ed.)

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Educational Psychology

Textbook:EducationalPsychology: Theory and Practice (5th ed.)

Chapter One:

Ellen Mathis and Leah Washington:

PPT Slide

What is Educational Psychology?

What is Educational Psychology? (cont.)

What Makes A Good Teacher?

Mastering the Teaching Skills.

Mastering the Teaching Skills (cont.)

Can Good Teaching Be Taught?

Teaching as Critical Thinking

What is the Role of Research in EdPsy?

Goals of Research in EdPsy:

The products of EdPsy research are:

Teaching as Decision-Making:

What research methods are used in EdPsy?

“Developing Critical Thinking Skills through an Interdisciplinary Approach with Social Studies Simulations and the Internet in Upper Elementary School Classes.”

Research Methods (cont.)

“Social Skills Differences Between Low-Achieving and High-Achieving, Rural and Suburban, Middle School Adolescents.”

Random Assignment = selection by chance (drawing names from a hat, flipping a coin, etc.) into different groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.

Internal Validity = the degree to which an experiment’s results can be attributed to the treatment in question, not to other factors.Generally due to the researcher having a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.

Internal Validity (cont.)

Internal Validity (cont.)

Internal Validity (cont.)

Internal Validity (cont.)

Internal Validity (cont.)

Internal Validity = the degree to which an experiment’s results can be attributed to the treatment in question, not to other factors.Generally due to the researcher having a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.Further reading available from the instructor’s SITE99 presentation on “Type I Errors”.

External Validity = the degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations.

Correlational Studies

Correlational Studies (cont.)

Observation or survey or interview that seeks to identify and gather detailed information and, therefore, describe something of interest.

Additional information on Chapter One can be obtained at: Slavin Student Center.

Email: rblewis@fhu.edu

Home Page: http://teach.fhu.edu/technology/PSY306

Other information:
PowerPoint presentation on Chapter One of Educational Psychology, created by Dr. Bruce Lewis.

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