Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Writing as a Learning Tool
Integrating Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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 different levels of education. It provides concrete...
Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The burgeoning multidisciplinary field of social and emotional learning (SEL) now has a comprehensive and definitive handbook covering all aspects of research, practice, and policy. The prominent editors and contributors describe state-of-the-art intervention and prevention programs designed to build...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume offers a historical and critical analysis of the emerging field of the learning sciences, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and improving how children and adults learn. It features a wide range of authors, including established scholars who founded and guided the...
Advancing Evidence-Based Practice Through Program Evaluation
A Practical Guide for School-Based Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Given the current climate of results-driven accountability, school-based professionals have a significant contribution to make in improving the impact of programs and initiatives through the application of program evaluation methods and tools to inform decision making within a multi-tier system of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1977, this book reports the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. The one common thread running through all of the formal papers and dialogue was that the knowledge a person already possesses is the principal determiner...
Moral Education
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance today—moral education. The book is organized around four questions: the nature and scope of moral education, the problem of ethical pluralism,...
by Shirley Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Metacognition is known to be an important factor in academic achievement; however it is also important in a wider life context. The ability to reflect upon how we are thinking can help us to make wiser decisions in all aspects of our life.
This book addresses how metacognition might be...
Handbook of School Mental Health
Research, Training, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
With so few therapeutic outlets readily available to young people, schools have evolved into mental health centers for many students. Yet schools are hampered by limited access to resources needed to provide mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention services.
Like its acclaimed...
A Theory of Creative Thinking
Construction and Verification of the Dual Circulation Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book examines research on creative thinking, both current and historical. It explores two dimensions of human thought (time and space) and two modes of thinking (conscious and unconscious) as well as both left and right brain functions and artistic and scientific creative activities. The book...
by John Sweller, Paul Ayres, Slava Kalyuga
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Over the last 25 years, cognitive load theory has become one of the world’s leading theories of instructional design. It is heavily researched by many educational and psychological researchers and is familiar to most practicing instructional designers, especially designers using computer and related...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The definitive handbook on peer relations has now been significantly revised with 55% new material. Bringing together leading authorities, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the dynamics of peer interactions, their impact on multiple aspects of social development, and the causes and consequences...
Race, Culture, and Schooling
Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Responding to a need for greater cultural competence in the preparation and development of teachers in diverse public school settings, this book investigates the critical developmental and social processes mediating students’ academic identities in those settings posing the greatest challenges to...
Mental Health Screening at School
Instrumentation, Implementation, and Critical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This volume examines the use of prediagnostic mental health screening as part of preventive services in primary and secondary schools. It presents the theory underlying mental health screening for children and the obstacles against its widespread implementation. Empirical findings illustrate the potential...
Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners
Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge...