Books in the Educational Psychology series

A companion volume to "Teaching Science for Understanding", this book explores how to assess whether learning has taken place. It discusses a range tools for assessment including concept maps, vee diagrams, clinical interviews, problem sets, performance-based assessments, computer-based methods, visual and observational testing, and more.

This book proposes a framework for critically examining dominant and taken-for-granted ideas in educational psychology, then applies that framework to the examination of Self-regulated learning (SRL) to show how it endorses middle-class conventions, aligns with neoliberal logic, and renders individuals subordinate to oppressive educational structures.

Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males by Jeremiah J. Sims, an educator, researcher, and administrator from Richmond, California, is calling for a revolutionary, paradigm shift in the STEM education of and for Black boys.

Cultural Collision and Collusion

Featuring scholarship from professors and graduate and undergraduate students actively involved in the work they profess, this book intends to make the practice of hip-hop feminist activism practical in our everyday lives that is both compelling and unapologetic.

Encouraging Metacognition

Traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the reality of teaching in a district that favors compliance over compassion.

African American Students in Urban Schools

African American Students in Urban Schools

Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. This book is both practical and helpful for educators and their schools in offering Positive Behavior Support (PBS), illustrating key steps in understanding the problem and research on cultural-linguistic diversity.

Designed to accompany or replace traditional textbooks in educational psychology, educational foundations, cognition and learning, human development, and other related fields, this book is suitable for educators and those seeking non-traditional ways of approaching learning and educational practices.

The second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts presents an enriched Vygotskian perspective on children's and adults' symbolic engagement with imagination, artistic expression, and multi-modal forms of expression.

The goal of Best Practices in STEM Education: Innovative Approaches from Einstein Fellow Alumni, Second Edition is to improve the state of STEM education, not only in the United States, but internationally as well: good education anywhere is good for education everywhere.

Answers the challenge of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by promoting evidence-based educational methods designed to improve student learning. This book details each of the approaches to education based on the principles of behavior analysis. It is written by scientist-practitioners.

Summarizing research in education, social, developmental, and counseling psychology, this title examines the personality and background of both those who become bullies and those most likely to become their victims. It also discusses bullying similarities and differences in elementary and middle school.

Provides a summary view of what research has determined about both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and clarifies what questions remain unanswered. This work includes the effects of extrinsic incentives or constraints on intrinsic motivation and creativity, and identifies theoretical advances in motivational research.

Provides a comprehensive resource for educational and cognitive psychologists, as well as educators themselves, on the mechanisms and processes of academic learning. Beginning with general themes that cross subject and age levels, this book discusses what motivates students to learn and how knowledge can be made personal for better learning.

One psychological function that has been found to play an important role in educational achievement of children is 'working memory', the processes involved in the temporary maintenance and manipulation of information. This book provides the reader with a review of the research that has identified how working memory relates to academic attainment.

Examines some of the inquiry related to the study of emotions in educational contexts. This book represents research on emotions and education, and has the potential to impact research in this area.

This companion volume to "Teaching Science for Understanding" exploes how to assess whether scientific learning has taken place. It discusses a range of practical tools for assessment, including concept maps, Venn diagrams, clinical interviews, problems sets and performance-based assessment.

Provides an overview to interpreting empirical data in education. This book reviews data analysis techniques: use and interpretation. It discusses research on learning, instruction, and curriculum, and explores the importance of showing progress as well as cause and effect. It identifies obstacles to applying research into practice.

The revised edition of Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn presents an exciting amalgam of educational psychology's research-based reflections framed in twenty-first century critical educational psychology. Featuring a collection of renowned international authors, this text will appeal to scholars across the globe for research and course use.