Designed to familiarize students with alternative instructional approaches using both cognitive and hardware technologies. Development of practical skills for using technology to solve instructional problems and accomplish educational goals. 3113 Microcomputer in Teaching I. A survey course for the pre-service teacher with emphasis on microcomputer applications in teaching. Laboratory 3473 Educational Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence. Psychological development from the preschool years through adolescence examined from the perspective of current theory and research.
Educational applications are an integral part of the class.
Families, schools, and societies for the context of development are considered. Classroom implications from the study of cognition, motivation, and classroom management are presented. Topics include various perspectives on how students learn, motivation processes in achievement settings, factors influencing individual variations in cognition and motivation, multiple perspectives on classroom management, and an introduction to the assessment of educational outcomes. A brief review of descriptive statistics, introduction to basic inferential statistics, and analysis of variance. Focus is on computer-based data analysis, and substantive conceptualization and interpretation of results.