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Educational Psychology: A View From Within the Discipline
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In this article, the authors collected information from a broad range of schools who offer graduate degrees in educational psychology and analyzed according to curricular content, administrative organization, student autonomy, course distributions and other requirements.Abstract:
An academic discipline can be defined on the basis of multiple sources of evidence. In spite of various efforts over the past 20 years to assess the identity of educational psychology, professionals within the field still lack a consensual view about its role and purpose as a discipline distinct from general psychology. One measure of a discipline's identity, which none of the attempts to define educational psychology have addressed, is the training of prospective educational psychologists. Although students at any institution must respond both to an implicit, hidden curriculum and to an explicit, formal curriculum, we argue that the latter best approximates the local consensus of professionals within the field. In this study, information was collected from a broad range of schools who offer graduate degrees in educational psychology and analyzed according to curricular content, administrative organization, student autonomy, course distributions, and other requirements. In general, the data suggested thre...read more
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Research article introductions in Chinese and English: A comparative genre-based study
TL;DR: It is proposed that an analytic-synthetic approach can be used to teach academic writing to Chinese ESL students, encouraging them to engage in genre-analysis tasks before doing their own writing.
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Toward an educational psychology of assessment for teaching and learning: Theories, contexts, and validation arguments.
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for an educational psychology of assessment for teaching and learning is proposed, consisting of three dimensions: epistemology and theories, the interpreter and user, and assessment characteristics.
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Metadiscourse in English and Chinese research article introductions
Loi Chek Kim,Jason Miin-Hwa Lim +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the use of metadiscourse in English and Chinese research article introductions in the field of educational psychology and provided insights into the teaching and learning of academic English writing for Chinese ESL (English as a Second Language) students.
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The professional practice of educational psychology
John C. Houtz,Carol D. Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential for the field of educational psychology to move beyond "psychology-applied-to-education" to develop a unique professional practice component is discussed, and many of the things educational psychologists are trained to do and have been doing for years fall within the "service provider" domain.
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Educational Psychology's Healthy Growing Pains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the historical development of educational psychology as a discipline, its current issues and tensions, and new directions that might flow from both its history and current state.
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The hidden curriculum
TL;DR: In a penetrating analysis of student unrest, the dean for Institute Relations at M.I.T as discussed by the authors and former chief of the psychiatric services both there and at Wellesley College isolates a major cause of campus conflict: the overwhelming, nonproductive mass of unstated academic and social norms that divert the student from creative intellectual effort and from the attempt to define and reach his goals as independently as he is able.
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The contribution of psychology to education.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors put their notions of the aims of education into terms of the exact changes that education is to make, and by describing for us the changes which do actually occur in human beings.
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Historical foundations of educational psychology.
John A. Glover,Royce R. Ronning +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a history of educational psychology, focusing on the history of the field of psychology from the early 1970s to the present day, with a focus on the educational psychology field.