Educational Psychology has a long tradition as a specialty within the field of psychology , formally recognized as a discipline in 1910, when the Journal of Educational Psychology (JEP) began publication. Early psychologists, such as William James and Wilhelm Wundt 1900) both focused on issues central to educational psychology today (e.g., cog-nitive processes, memory, and effective teaching). ...

New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital Since Woodworth's questionnaire was devised and published, many revisions have appeared adding improvements to his original inventory but usually retaining its general form and some of its items. In the attempt to validate these tests, research workers have made use of the entire gamut of social deviants, from the problem child through the delin...

Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of the relation between evolved systems of folk knowledge and inferential and attributional biases as these relate to academic learning in modern society. Following discussion and illustration of the mechanisms of natural selection and their application to human motivational, cognitive, and behavioral evolution, the basic premises and principles ...

34 From MOOCs to MOOPILs: Pushing the Boundaries of Virtual Professional Development and Learning for Teachers; Beverly J. Irby, Texas A&M University, Education Leadership Research Center, Educational Leadership and Human Resource Development Department, College Station, TX, USA Kara L. Sutton-Jones, Texas A&M University, Center for Research and Development in Dual Language and Literacy Acquisi...

Describing and testing an intermediate concept measure of adolescent moral thinking Stephen Thoma a , W. Pitt Derryberry b & H. Michael Crowson c a Educational Psychology Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA b Psychology Department, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA c Educational Psychology Department, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Version of record...

I am always attempting to develop new and better ways to teach beginning teachers “all there is to know” about child development and special education. Over the years this process has lead me to feel more and more disillusioned. I am convinced that we need a total revamp of how we approach teaching educational psychology and propose that our discipline re-define what is considered to be essenti...