"It is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning."
It focuses on understanding how people learn and develop in educational settings.
Developmental psychology: The study of how humans develop physically, emotionally, and cognitively from infancy to adulthood, including social and cultural influences on development.
Learning theories: A branch of psychology that studies how people acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes through experience or instruction. Includes behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, social learning theory, and others.
Motivation: The factors that drive and sustain behavior, including intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, goal setting, self-regulation, achievement goals, and others.
Cognition and memory: The processes involved in thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, and remembering, including attention, perception, categorization, learning, and memory.
Intelligence: The ability to reason, understand complex ideas, learn quickly, and adapt to new situations. Includes theories of intelligence, measurement of intelligence, and interventions to promote intellectual development.
Creativity: The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas, products, or solutions. Includes theories of creativity, measurement of creativity, and interventions to enhance creative thinking.
Assessment and evaluation: The process of gathering and interpreting data to make informed decisions about student learning and development. Includes test development, validity and reliability, formative and summative assessment, and feedback and grading.
Instructional design: The process of planning, developing, delivering, and evaluating instruction, with a focus on promoting learning and transfer of knowledge and skills. Includes principles of effective instruction, instructional technology and media, and learning environments.
Classroom management: The strategies and techniques used to create a positive and productive classroom environment, including establishing routines and procedures, managing student behavior, and promoting student engagement and motivation.
Diversity and inclusion: The recognition and acknowledgment of differences in ethnicity, culture, gender, ability, and other dimensions of diversity, with a focus on promoting equity, inclusion, and social justice in education.
Professional ethics: The standards of conduct and values that guide the ethical practice of educators, including issues of privacy, confidentiality, academic integrity, and professional responsibility.
"The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives."
"Individual differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation, and self-concept."
"It relies heavily on quantitative methods, including testing and measurement, to enhance educational activities related to instructional design, classroom management, and assessment."
"It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. It is also informed by neuroscience."
"Specialties within educational studies, including instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organizational learning, special education, classroom management, and student motivation."
"Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences."
"In universities, departments of educational psychology are usually housed within faculties of education."
"Memory, conceptual processes, and individual differences in conceptualizing new strategies for learning processes in humans."
"Theories of operant conditioning, functionalism, structuralism, constructivism, humanistic psychology, Gestalt psychology, and information processing."
"School psychology began with the concept of intelligence testing leading to provisions for special education students, who could not follow the regular classroom curriculum in the early part of the 20th century."
"To help close the gap for children of color, as the fight against racial inequality and segregation was still very prominent during the early to mid-1900s."
"Psychiatrists, social workers, teachers, speech and language therapists, and counselors."
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