Spring, 1988

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Weeeay,.4:30 - 7:20 p.m.

Location: MPX 8651

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Dr. Phil Winne

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MPX 9611

Telephone: 291-4858

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EDUCATION 320-3

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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION

PREREQUISITE:

Education 220 - Psychological Issues in Education, or equivalent (e.g., Psychology 101).

DESCRIPTION:

An introductory survey of instructional psychology, a subset of theory and applied research in

education. Instructional psychology involves designing and testing models that describe how

students learn from teaching, and how students' motivation interacts with teaching and

develops in the context of performing instructional tasks. The field also studies how teachers

think about instruction, and how they plan for and analyze teaching.

Students interested in exploring how contemporary psychological theories of cognition and

motivation are applied in educational settings will profit from this course. Teachers and

prospective teachers will gain knowledge and skills to help in planning, delivering, and

evaluating teaching. For psychology students, this course will generalize classic experimental

research about learning and motivation to the context of one of our society's most influential

and pervasive settings, the classroom.

OUTLINE OF TOPICS:

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Macro and Micro Models of Instruction

- Respondent and Operant (Behavioral) Models of Learning in the Classroom Context

- Social Learning Model

- Cognitive Models of Students' Motivation

- Cognitive Models of Students' Learning

- A Cognitive Psychology of Teachers

- Tools for Applying Instructional Psychology to Teaching

REQUIREMENTS:

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Approximately 50 pages of reading per week

- Written in-class and homework assignments

- Project: off-campus observation and analysis of instruction (30% of mark)

- Exam covering the first half of the course at midterm (35% of mark)

- Exam covering the last half of the course at the end of the semester (35%)

READINGS:

Textbook: Gagne, E.D. (1985). The Cognitive Psychology of School Learning

Xerox materials on reserve in the library.