Learning in the Classroom

Catalog description

This class introduces you to the basic principles of learning, including cognition, motivation, and assessment. You will examine the relationships between theory, research, and practice in learning, memory, child development, motivation, and educational assessment for the school setting. This course will provide the student with concepts and principles of educational psychology that will form a framework for thinking about learning and instruction and how theories of learning are connected to classroom situations May be repeated up to 3 credits.