Teaching and learning : the essential readings /

This is the first collection of key articles on the psychology behind educational attainment. It brings together in one volume for students a set of accessible but influential papers, representing the best classic and cutting edge work in the field. Under the themes of basic processes in learning, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Desforges, Charles, Fox, Richard, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
Series:Essential readings in developmental psychology.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Attaining excellence through deliberate practice: insights from the study of expert performance / K. Anders Ericsson
  • Rhyme, language, and children's reading / Peter Bryant, Morag MacLean, and Lynette Bradley
  • The rebirth of children's learning / Robert S. Siegler
  • Candy selling and math learning / Geoffrey B. Saxe
  • Understanding academic performance at university: a research retrospective / Noel J. Entwistle
  • On becoming a tutor: toward an ontogenetic model / David Wood [and others]
  • Teacher expectations: implications for school improvement / Colin Rogers
  • An exploration of long-term far-transfer effects following an extended intervention program in the high school science curriculum / Philip Adey and Michael Shayer
  • Reconstructing context: the conventionalization of classroom knowledge / Derek Edwards and Neil Mercer
  • The role of assessment in a learning culture / Lorrie A. Shepard.