[Ebook PDF] Essentials of Educational Psychology: Big Ideas To Guide Effective Teaching, 5th Edition

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Focused on the big ideas of education psychology, this text gives readers a practical understanding of the core concepts in educational psychology and of the research-based strategies needed to facilitate student learning and development.

While generally shorter than competing educational psychology textbooks, Essentials of Educational Psychology still provides a comprehensive overview of theories, research, and educational implications related to learning and cognition, motivation, child and adolescent development, instructional methods, classroom management, and assessment. Each chapter is organized around three to six Big Ideas, and each Big Idea is then divided into several more specific bold-faced principles or recommendations. Widely acclaimed for its conversational writing style, the book provides readers with a clear and easily understood picture of the psychological principles that impact teaching and learning.

PREFACE
New to the Fifth Edition
Our knowledge about how children and adolescents learn and develop—and also about how best to help them learn and develop—grows by leaps and bounds every year. Throughout this fifth edition, we’ve made many changes to reflect new research findings and evidence-based classroom strategies. General changes include the following:
• Reorganization of chapter sequence: We have switched the order of “Complex Cognitive Processes” (now Chapter 3) and “Learning in Context” (now Chapter 4) to allow a smoother and more logical transition from “Learning, Cognition, and Memory” (Chapter 2). We have also switched the order of “Motivation and Affect” (now Chapter 5) and “Cognitive Development” (now Chapter 6) so that the latter chapter immediately precedes “Personal, Social, and Moral Development” (Chapter 7), and thus the two chapters about child and adolescent development are together in the book.
• Explicit organization of chapter content to align with the book’s Big Ideas: As was true in the fourth edition, each chapter begins with three to six Big Ideas that summarize the chapter’s content. In this edition, each major section of a chapter is explicitly tied to a Big Idea, with a Self-Check quiz and one or more relevant Application Exercises appearing at the end of the section.
• New graphics to enhance readers’ comprehension: We have added new graphics in several chapters to visually summarize some of the concepts discussed in the text.
• Many new online resources: We have added many book-specific online resources, which can now all be accessed with a single click in the e-book. These resources include:
• Many updated video examples of children and teachers in action
• Animated Video Explanations that explain and illustrate certain key concepts and principles (users of the fourth edition may recognize these as short clips from that edition’s lengthy interactive modules)
• Interactive Application Exercises, many of which include classroom videos requiring analysis
• Multiple-choice Self-Check quizzes (one connected to each Big Idea section)
• Interactive exercises similar to those a preservice teacher might find on a licensure exam

BRIEF CONTENT

1. Introduction to Educational Psychology 2
2. Learning, Cognition, and Memory 20
3. Complex Cognitive Processes 62
4. Learning in Context 102
5. Motivation and Affect 152
6. Cognitive Development 204
7. Personal, Social, and Moral Development 250
8. Instructional Strategies 300
9. Strategies for Creating Effective Classroom and School Environments 340
10. Assessment Strategies 382