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department Educational Psychology (X) |
How people learn and remember, what motivates them to learn, and how learning and motivation are shaped by social contexts in homes, school, and communities. Cognitive and socio-cultural theories of learning and motivation (including distributed cognition, goal theories, self-determination theory, and interest theories), especially as related to college learners.
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Human learning in the educational setting. Cognition, development, learning, motivation, affective processes, and socialization. Emphasis on skills in influencing classroom learning and discipline. Open to students in the Music Education program or by permission of instructor. Offered: A.
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Techniques and strategies for the design and implementation of studies of classroom instruction. Directed toward classroom teachers as consumers of instructional research and as evaluators in their own classrooms. Credit/no credit only.
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Study of guidance programs in elementary and secondary schools. Attention is given to the roles of specialists with emphasis on the role of the classroom teacher in school guidance programs. This course is designed for teachers, administrators, and prospective teachers.
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Special studies for counselors, teachers, administrators, and others concerned with student personnel and psychological services in schools and colleges. The course focuses on special topics that have either local or contemporary significance.
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Measures of central tendency and variability, point and interval estimation, linear correlation, hypothesis testing. Offered: AWSpS.
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Practical understanding of test reliability, validity, and derived scores as they apply to external educational assessments; concepts of criterion and norm-referenced testing; review of group administered norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests and/or testing programs; test interpretation; issues and ethics in large scale assessment. Prerequisite: EDPSY 490. Offered: W.
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Students developing studies under this rubric should be advised that a report or a paper setting forth the results of their investigations should be regarded as a basic part of the program. Offered: AWSpS.
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Individual study of an educational problem in the field under the direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite: approved plan of study and permission of the instructor must be filed in the Office of Educational Psychology in the College of Education. Offered: AWSpS.
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Systematic examination of current research about human learning in educational settings, including the study of behavioral, information processing, social construction, and the developmental perspectives on learning. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Offered: AWSpS.
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Perceptual-motor, language, and overall cognitive development in children from birth through primary-school age. Emphasis on Piagetian and Vygotskian approaches to development with a special focus on the connections between learning and development. Field-based course projects may be required. Prerequisite: EDPSY 501 or permission. Offered: Sp.
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Reading and discussion of theoretical and research papers from the extensive literature on Piagetian, psychometric, and information processing conceptions of intelligence. A historical approach to the topic is followed by analysis of current writings on intelligence and its measurement. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: EDPSY 501 and graduate status in education or psychology. Offered: alternate years; W.
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Sources, current state, and utility of prescriptive instructional theories with emphasis upon theories having a potential for guiding the design of instruction. Prerequisite: EDPSY 501 or equivalent.
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Students administer and interpret tests of reading, writing, arithmetic, and related developmental skills; integrate test, observational, interview, and portfolio information in staffings and written reports; and consult with teachers regarding educational interventions. Prerequisite: graduate standing in the school psychology specialization and permission of instructor. Offered: A.
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Practicum in supervising counseling, group counseling, diagnostic activities, and remedial academic therapy. Prerequisite: advanced graduate standing in School Psychology. Offered: AWSp.
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Human development theories and models. Educational implications of theory, methodology, and application. Current research complements the historical antecedents of current practice. Age range covered varies as function of current issues in professional literature. Prerequisite: 15 credits in educational psychology or psychology. Offered: alternate years; W.
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Contemporary issues and trends in human learning, with a focus on reasoning within subject-matter areas such as mathematics, history, and science. Prerequisite: EDPSY 501 or equivalent. Offered: alternate years.
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Designed for graduate students in educational psychology. Applications of theoretical constructs to particular problems encountered in school counseling, practice.
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Development and evaluation of traditional, observational, essay, performance-based, portfolio assessments and grading models as they are used in classroom assessment; some review of current research on classroom-based assessment; classroom assessment ethics.
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Instrument development techniques including construct development, test and item specifications, item writing, planning for reliability and validity studies; ethics in test administration and interpretation. Intended for doctoral or masters students to develop instruments for their own research. Prerequisite: EDPSY 490 or equivalent.
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Techniques for individual assessment of students with reading difficulties (K-12) including formal assessment using standard assessment tools and informal diagnostic teaching. Appropriate for classroom teachers, reading specialists, and school psychologists. Includes conducting and analyzing case studies. Prerequisite: EDC&I 460, EDC&I 462, other reading courses, or permission of instructor. Offered: alternate years; Sp.
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Research and theory examining the effects of disability, poverty, trauma and immigration and its impact on child development across cultures, effective interventions in educational and non-educational settings, and the consequences of critical issues in the context of psycho-social and development processes in different cultural and international contexts. Offered: Sp.
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Reviews current empirical research on cognitive processes in reading, including word and sub-word processes, syntax and comprehension, reading and perception, word recognition, concept development and meaning in reading, psychology of reading interests and skills. Prerequisite: EDPSY 501 or equivalent. Offered: alternative years.
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Examines writing as a cognitive process and reviews current empirical research on writing, emphasizing primarily studies from a psychological perspective. Explores both developmental differences and individual differences in writing skills, together with instructional implications. Prerequisite: EDPSY 501 or equivalent. Offered: alternative years.
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Supervised practicum in diagnosis and remediation of reading disabilities. Prerequisite: EDTEP 532, EDTEP 533 or equivalent; EDC&I 460 or permission of instructor.
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