&MON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Spring Semester 2000 ?

EDUC 320 - 3

John McNamara

Instructional

Psychology ?

Office: MPX

8645

Tel:

291-4548 

Mondays

16:30-19:20 ? 

E01.00 ?

E-mail: jkm@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE

Educ 220

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Instructional psychology is a field of research addressing three main issues:

• How do students learn when an instructor tries to guide the learning process?

• How does motivation develop in instructional settings, and how do motivation and learning influence

one another?

• How do teachers think about teaching, and how do these ways of thinking about teaching

influence students' learning and motivation?

PDP students and teachers will gain knowledge and skills in this course that contribute to planning, delivering,

and evaluating teaching. For psychology students, this course extends classical experimental research about

cognition and motivation into the context of one of our society's most influential and pervasive institutions,

the classroom.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

1. Demonstrate your knowledge about instructional psychology.

Demonstrate an understanding of how cognition and motivation influence learning and teaching.

3. Demonstrate skill in reading educational research articles and reviews.

Demonstrate skill in designing instruction based on theories of instructional psychology.

REQUIREMENTS

Weekly Tutorials (20%)

After a 2-hour lecture students will work for 1 hour in tutorial groups. This work will focus on the relevant

topics covered in lecture.

2. Annotated Bibliography (25%)

Students will read and review at least 5 educational research articles in order to write this assignment.

Design Project (25%)

Students will design an instructional program based on the course topics and a chosen curriculum area.

4. Take-home exam (30%)

During the last week of classes, students will take an exam that may be completed outside of class.

REQUIRED TEXTS

Bruning, R. H., Schraw, G. J

, and Ronning, R. R. (1999).Cognitive Psychology and Instruction. Englewood

Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Selected research articles will be placed on reserve

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