Author(s): coll.
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 1971
Language: English
Pages: 513
Tags: anthology, education, schools, teaching, positive and negative reinforcement, student attitudes towards school, heritability, intelligence, behavioral genetics, kindergarten, comic books, birth order, college attendance, mental health, cheating, peer effects, preschool, directed learning, diversity, corporal punishment, social reinforcement, creativity, brainstorming, grade acceleration, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, group therapy, school dropouts, Hispanic underachievement, propag
PART 1: Introduction
- "A Brief History of Educational Psychology", Robert I. Watson
- "Interpreting Research in Educational Psychology", Donn Byrne & Henry Clay Lindgren
PART 2: Growth and Development of Learners
- "The Beginning of the Self: The Problem of the Nurturing Environment", Ira J. Gordon
- "Parental Expectations for Independent Behaviors and Achievement of Elementary School Boys", Anita Whiting
- "Children’s Self-Concept and Kindergarten Achievement", Richard J. Ozehosky And Edward T. Clark
- "A Study of Seventh Grade Children’s Reading of Comic Books as Related to Certain Other Variables", W. Paul Blakely
- "Where Are the Siblings? A Re-evaluation of the Relationship Between Birth Order and College Attendance", William T. Smelser And Louis H. Stewart
PART 3: Mental Health of Learners
"Interpersonal Relations and Mental Health in the Classroom", Richard A. Schmuck, Margaret B. Luszki, And David C. Epperson
- "3.2 Social Schema of Normal and Disturbed School Children ", Rhoda Lee Fisher
- "3.3 The Disturbed Child in the Classroom", Katharine F. Tift
- "3.4 Effects on Cheating of Achievement Anxiety and Knowledge of Peer Performance", Jev Shelton And John P. Hill
- "3.5 Alienation of Present-Day Adolescents", Louis J. Wise, M.D.
- "3.6 Reducing Educational Pressures", Richard Dempsey
PART 4 The Learning Process: Theory, Research, and Practice
- "4.1 Psychoneurobiochemeducation", David Krech
- "4.2 A Self-Concept Theory of Learning: A Learning Theory for Teachers", Walcott H. Beatty And Rodney Clark
- "4.3 The Act of Discovery", Jerome S. Bruner
- "4.4 The Motivating Efiect of Learning by Directed Discovery", Bert Y. Kersh
- "4.5 A Comparative Study of Three Preschool Curricula", David P. Weikart
- "4.6 Modern Learning Theory and the Elementary School Curriculum", Patrick Suppes
Part 5 The Learning Situation and Its Management
- "5.1 Human Motivation and Environment", Lloyd E. Homme
- "5.2 Negative Attention Seeking or Tactical Provocation?", Ronald Gallimore
- "5.3 Social Reinforcement in Reducing Inappropriate Behavior", Alan S. Briskin And William I. Gardner
- "5.4 The Comparative Influence of Punitive and Nonpunitive Teachers upon Children’s Concepts of School Misconduct", Jacob S. Kounin And Paul V. Gump
- "5.5 Changes in Pupil Attitudes During the School Year", Ned A. Flanders, Betty M. Morrison, And E. Leland Brode
- "5.6 What Are We Rewarding?", James A. Conway
PART 6 The Evaluation of Learning
- "6.1 The Role of Evaluative Research", Edward A. Suchman
- "6.2 The Functions and Uses of Educational Measurement", Winton H. Manning
- "6.3 Testing Programs-Misconception, Misuse, Overuse", Frank B. Womer
- "6.4 Improving the Competence of Teachers in Educational Measurement", Robert L. Ebel
PART 7 Individual Difierences: Intelligence and Creativity
- "7.1 Heredity and Environment: A Controversy over IQ and Scholastic Achievement", Arthur R. Jensen
- "7.2 Educational Relevance and Jensen’s Conclusions", Nicholas Anastasiow
- "7.3 Diversity", John R. Platt
- "7.4 Brainstorming and Orneriness as Facilitators of Creativity", Henry Clay Lindgren And Fredrica Lindgren
- "7.5 Training Children to be Creative May Have Little Effect on Original Classroom Performance", Frank E. Williams
PART 8 Providing for Individual Differences
- "8.1 Effects of Accelerating Bright, Older Elementary Pupils - a Second Follow-up", Herbert J. Klausmeier, William L. Goodwin, And Teckla Ronda
- "8.2 The Ombudsman: Relevant Role Model for the Counselor", Michael A. Ciavarella And Lawrence W. Doolittle
- "8.3 A Work Experience Program for the Educable Mentally Retarded at the Elementary School Level", Mary Turner
- "8.4 Educational Disability in Emotionally Disturbed Children", F. Beth Stone And Vinton N. Rowley
- "8.5 School Grades and Group Therapy", Samuel Tenenbaum
- "8.6 New Programs for Dropouts", Herman Slotkin
Part 9 The Socially Disadvantaged Learner
- "9.1 Malnutrition and Learning", Rita Bakan
- "9.2 Mother-Child Interaction: Social Class Differences in the First Year of Life", Steven R. Tulkin And Jerome Kagan
- "9.3 Measures of Intelligence on Southwest Indian Students", Bert P. Cundick
- "9.4 The Early Training Project: A Seventh Year Report", Susan W. Gray And Rupert A. Klaus
- "9.5 A Comparison of the Problems of Certain Anglo- and Latin-American junior High School Students", Robert Paul Witherspoon
- "9.6 Negro Academic Motivation and Scholastic Achievement", Robert Lee Green And William W. Farquhar
- "9.7 Changes in Attitudes Toward Negroes of White Elementary School Students After Use of Multiethnic Readers", John H. Litcher And David W. Johnson
PART 10 The Psychology of Being a Teacher
- "10.1 Teachers' Communication of Diflerential Expectations for Children's Classroom Performances: Some Behavioral Data", Jere E. Brophy And Thomas L. Good
- "10.2 The American Teacher: A Tentative Psychological Description", Louis S. Levine
- "10.3 Authoritarianism, Independence, and Child-Centered Practices in Education: A Study of Values", Henry Clay Lindgren
- "10.4 Anxieties and Discontents in Teaching", Robert H. Snow
- "Index"
