Essentials of Educational Psychology: Big Ideas To Guide Effective Teaching, 5th edition

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Educational Psychology
   • Using Research Findings to Make Instructional Decisions
   • Developing as a Teacher
   • Strategies for Learning and Studying Effectively
2. Learning, Cognition, and Memory
   • Thinking and Learning in the Brain
   • Learning as Active Construction
   • How Human Memory Operates
   • Why Learners May or May Not Remember What They Have Learned
   • Promoting Effective Cognitive Processes
     • Supporting Optimal Brain Functioning
     • Remembering the Limitations of Attention and Working Memory
     • Encouraging Effective Long-Term Memory Storage Processes
     • Facilitating Retrieval
     • Monitoring Students’ Progress
3. Complex Cognitive Processes
   • Self-Regulation and Metacognition
     • Effective Self-Regulated Learning
     • The Roles of Metacognition
   • Transfer
   • Problem Solving and Creativity
   • Critical Thinking
   • Promoting Self-Regulation Skills and Metacognitive Development
   • Creating a Classroom Environment that Nurtures Complex Processes.
4. Learning in Context
   • Immediate Stimuli as Context
   • Social Interaction as Context
   • Culture, Society, Technology and Academic Domains as Contexts
     • Culture as Context
     • Society as Context
     • Technology and Media as Contexts
     • Academic Content Domains as Contexts
   • How Learners Modify Their Environments
   • Providing Supportive Contexts for Learning
     • Encouraging Productive Behaviors
     • Providing Physical, Social, and Technological Support for Effective Cognitive Processes
   • Taking Students' Broader Cultural and Socioeconomic Context into Account
5. Motivation and Affect
   • The Nature of Motivation
   • Basic Human Needs
   • Cognitive Factors in Motivation
   • Affect and its Effects on Motivation and Learning
   • Promoting Motivation and Productive Affect
     • Strategies That Empower Students
     • Strategies That Demonstrate the Usefulness of Activities
     • Strategies That Foster Success
     • Strategies That Stimulate Interest
     • Strategies That Show and Promote Caring
     • Strategies That Generate Productive Affect for Learning
6. Cognitive Development
   • General Principles of Development
   • Developmental Processes
   • Trends in Cognitive Development
   • Intelligence
   • Addressing Students' Developmental Needs
     • Accommodating Developmental Differences and Diversity
     • Fostering Cognitive Development in All Students
7. Personal, Social, and Moral Development
   • Personality and Sense of Self
   • Peer Relationships
     • Social Cognition
   • Moral and Prosocial Development
   • Promoting Personal, Social, and Moral Development
     • Fostering Personal Development
     • Encouraging Effective Social Cognition and Interpersonal Skills
     • Promoting Moral Reasoning and Prosocial Behavior
   • Supporting Students Who Face Exceptional Personal or Social Challenges
8. Instructional Strategies
   • Planning Instruction
   • Conducting Teacher-Directed Instruction
   • Conducting Learner-Directed Instruction
   • General Instructional Strategies
9. Strategies for Creating an Effective Classroom Environment
   • Creating an Environment Conducive to Learning
   • Expanding the Sense of Community Beyond the Classroom
   • Reducing Unproductive Behaviors
   • Addressing Aggression and Violence at School
10. Assessment Strategies
    • Using Assessments for Various Purposes
      • Guiding Instructional Decision Making
      • Diagnosing Learning and Performance Problem
      • Determining What Students Have Ultimately Learned from Instruction
      • Evaluating the Quality of Instruction
      • Promoting Learning
    • Enhancing Learning through Classroom Assessment Practices
    • Important Qualities of Good Assessment
    • Informally and Formally AssessingStudents' Progress and Achievements
      • Conducting Informal Assessments
      • Designing and Giving Formal Assessments
      • Evaluating Students’ Performance on Formal Assessments
    • Summarizing Students' Achievement with Grades and Portfolios
    • Assessing Students' Achievement and Abilities with Standardized Tests