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Eric Thomas
Torsten Galle
Kathryn AshbyLearning, Knowledge and Human Development MOOC’s Updates
Educational Psychology
Option 1
How does educational psychology contribute to our understanding? What evidence does it offer? What interpretative concepts and theories does it provide?
Educational psychology is the study of how people learn, including teaching methods, instructional processes, and individual differences in learning. It explores the cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and social influences on the learning process. Educational psychologists use this understanding of how people learn to develop instructional strategies and help students succeed in school. This branch of psychology focuses on the learning process of early childhood and adolescence. However, it also explores the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that are involved in learning throughout the entire lifespan. The field of educational psychology incorporates a number of other disciplines, including developmental psychology, behavioral psychology, and cognitive psychology. Approaches to educational psychology include behavioral, developmental, cognitive, constructivist, and experimental perspectives.
Educational Psychology draws from other fields such as neuroscience and often involves standardised testing to obtain information about children’s learning skills and abilities. This information enables us to gain insight into how children learn and process information and what their learning potential might be. And it enables us to recommend specific learning strategies and supports for home and school to help them to reach that potential.
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Educational Psychology draws from other fields such as neuroscience and often involves standardized testing to obtain information about children’s learning skills and abilities. This information enables us to gain insight into how children learn and process information and what their learning potential might be and it enables us to recommend specific learning strategies and supports for home and school to help them to reach that potential.
“Educational psychologists aim to understand how kids learn and find ways to improve learning outcomes”, as explained by Jessica Levetan.
Educational psychologists work with children and teenagers to identify strengths and weaknesses, help them tap into their existing resources, and build on strategies to overcome challenges and improve performance. This often extends beyond the classroom to other aspects of daily living, such as stress management and building resilience and self-confidence.”
So Educational Psychology equips the psychologists to work with children to find out HOW they learn and process information and look for ways to improve their performance.
And it’s not just intelligence that affect learning outcomes, emotional issues, attitudes, motivation, self-regulation, behaviour and self-esteem all contribute to learning.
Quantitative Psychology-A Basic Definition
Although broadly defined, quantitative psychology is basically the study of techniques and methods that help measure human attributes. Quantitative psychology also incorporates the mathematical and statistical modeling of various psychological processes as well as the analysis of psychological data and research studies. Quantitative psychology plays an integral role in all sectors of psychology: education, science, and public interest and practice.
Quantitative Psychology-The Research Component
One of the integral components to the field of quantitative psychology is research and development. This research and development covers many areas: statistical analysis, research design, and measurement. It also incorporates the statistical and mathematical modeling of various psychological processes. Working within these sectors, quantitative psychologists create new methodologies and evaluate the methodologies they are currently implementing in order to examine behavior under conditions existing in psychological data (such as small samples). This type of work supports the research of all sectors within the field of psychology.
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Quantitative Psychology-Subfields
The field of quantitative psychology contains two major subfields: psychometrics and mathematical psychology. A brief summation of each subfield can be found below:
Psychometrics
Psychometrics is a field of study that incorporates the techniques and theories involved in psychological measurements. One dimension of this field incorporates the objective measurements of knowledge, attitudes, abilities, skills, educational achievement, and personality traits. An example of this would be psychometric research which pertains to the creation and subsequent validation of assessment measures like tests, questionnaires, personality tests, and raters’ judgments. Another aspect of this field includes statistical research that has bearing on measurement theories (such as intraclass correlation and response theory).
Quantitative Psychology-A Basic Definition
Although broadly defined, quantitative psychology is basically the study of techniques and methods that help measure human attributes. Quantitative psychology also incorporates the mathematical and statistical modeling of various psychological processes as well as the analysis of psychological data and research studies. Quantitative psychology plays an integral role in all sectors of psychology: education, science, and public interest and practice.
Quantitative Psychology-The Research Component
One of the integral components to the field of quantitative psychology is research and development. This research and development covers many areas: statistical analysis, research design, and measurement. It also incorporates the statistical and mathematical modeling of various psychological processes. Working within these sectors, quantitative psychologists create new methodologies and evaluate the methodologies they are currently implementing in order to examine behavior under conditions existing in psychological data (such as small samples). This type of work supports the research of all sectors within the field of psychology.
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Quantitative Psychology-Subfields
The field of quantitative psychology contains two major subfields: psychometrics and mathematical psychology. A brief summation of each subfield can be found below:
Psychometrics
Psychometrics is a field of study that incorporates the techniques and theories involved in psychological measurements. One dimension of this field incorporates the objective measurements of knowledge, attitudes, abilities, skills, educational achievement, and personality traits. An example of this would be psychometric research which pertains to the creation and subsequent validation of assessment measures like tests, questionnaires, personality tests, and raters’ judgments. Another aspect of this field includes statistical research that has bearing on measurement theories (such as intraclass correlation and response theory).