09.13.06
Educational Psychology on Wikipedia
Educational Psychology on Wikipedia
The article gives a definition of Educational Psychology and how it may differ from School Psychology. The article gives a brief history of Educational Psychology as well as a list of “big names” in the field. It also talks about various topics (individual differences and disabilities, learning and cognition, and motivation) in the discipline and addresses the different theoretical perspectives. The article describes various qualitative and quantitative methods used within the field and also ways that knowledge gained through research can be applied to teaching and curriculum (“instructional design and technology”).
I found this article much more streamlined/sparse than the Greeno article for this week. In some ways that was good but it also made the article much less comprehensive. I found the history very sparse (probably because I’m taking the “Intellectual History of Educational Inquiry”). I thought the article focused on psychometrics, testing, and technologies a little more than it probably should have but that may be because the author is interested in educational technologies.
