William CopeLisa Kamau’s Updates
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UPDATE #7 Research and Evaluation
Best way to describe an application of the quantitiative methods of educational psychology would be through an elaborate experience. I came across Nancy Smith, who earned her Ph.D. in quantitative methods from the...More
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UPDATE #5: The Guidance and Counselling Role of the Teacher in Higher Education
Introduction
Seckle (1999) has stressed the need for specialised support in guidance and counselling in higher education, noting that each tertiary education lecturer/teacher should be familiar with the basic princi...More
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UPDATE #3 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE & COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
What is collective intelligence?
It is important to realize that intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual brains. It also arises with groups of individuals. In fact, I would define collective intelligence as groups of indiv...More
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UPDATE #2 CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE CLASSROOM
Introduction:
The appropriate question to answer this is how do we learn? Watching a young child grow from infancy to toddlerhood, we marvel at the amount of learning that has allowed him to understand his expanding environment. Those early years p...More
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UPDATE #1 OPERANT CONDITIONING
Skinner is regarded as the father of Operant Conditioning, but his work was based on Thorndike’s (1898) law of effect. According to this principle, behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and behavior followed by...More
