Education Psychology : New Dimensions

Contents: Preface. 1. Educational and Evolutionary Psychology. 2. Active learning and Adolescence. 3. Pedagogical Patterns and Peer Mentoring. 4. High-Stakes Testing and Human Performance. 5. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. 6. Criterion-Referenced Test and Critical Thinking. 7. Constructive Alignment. 8. Tracking Education. 9. Intelligence Theories. 10. Outcome-based Education. 11. Mathematical Anxiety and Meta-Analysis. 12. Educational Psychology and Executive Functions. Index.

Educational psychology is turn informs a wide range of specialties within educational studies, including instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organisational learning, special education and classroom management. Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences. In universities, departments of educational psychology are usually housed within faculties of education, possibly accounting for the lack of representation of educational psychology content in introductory psychology textbooks.