- Jeanne Ellis Ormrod |
- Donald H. Saklofske |
- Vicki L. Schwean |
- Jac J.W. Andrews |
- Bruce M. Shore |
Title overview
Principles of Educational Psychology employs a unique approach to help 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.
Principles of Educational Psychology recognizes that the principles of educational psychology have clear relevance to understanding, encouraging, and assessing learning, and to the decisions a classroom teacher must make on an ongoing basis. How children and adolescents learn and think, how they change as they grow and develop, why they do the things they do, how they are often very different from one another and at other times so much alike–our understanding of all these things has innumerable implications for classroom practice and, ultimately, for the lives of the next generation.
Content Highlights
- Student oriented presentation of material and writing style.
- New questions and thoughts throughout the text promote active learning.
- Expanded coverage on subject including Piaget, Linguistic Development, the influence of stress on school success, aggression and bullying, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Instruction, and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning.
- Updated Canadian research and statistics
New to this Edition
- Updated Canadian research and statistics.
- New questions and thoughts throughout the text promote active learning.
- New practice material.
- Provides links to Canadian websites.
- Expanded coverage of Piaget in Chapter 2.
- Updated material on Linguistic Development in Ch. 2.
- New coverage of the influence of stress on school success in Ch. 4.
- New coverage of aggression and bullying in Ch. 8.
- New material on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Instruction in Ch. 10.
- Updated coverage of technology in schools and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Ch. 10
Table of contents
- Educational Psychology and Teacher Decision Making
- Cognitive and Linguistic Development
- Personal, Social, and Moral Development
- Individual and Group Differences
- Learning and Behaviour Processes
- Learning and Cognitive Processes
- Knowledge Construction and Higher-Level Thinking
- Social Cognitive Views of Learning
- Motivation, Affect, and Cognition
- Instructional Strategies
- Creating and Maintaining a Productive Classroom Environment
- Instructional Assessment
Author bios
Jeanne Ellis Ormrod received her A.B. in psychology from Brown University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in educational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. She earned licensure in school psychology through postdoctoral work at Temple University and the University of Colorado at Boulder and has worked as a middle school geography teacher and school psychologist. She was Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado until 1998; she is currently Professor Emerita there. She has published and presented extensively on cognition and memory, cognitive development, instruction, and related topics but is probably best known for this book and four others: Human Learning (currently in its 8th Edition); Essentials of Educational Psychology (now in its 6th Edition and now coauthored with Brett D. Jones); Child Development and Education (co-authored with Teresa McDevitt, now out in its 7th Edition); and Practical Research: Design and Process (recently released in its 13th Edition). She and her husband Richard live in New Hampshire, where (she is happy to report) she is within a 90-minute drive of her three grandchildren.