Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice

by Robert E. Slavin

Slavin writes in such a way that concepts are very clear and examples illustrating the concepts are engaging and relevant.”
Karen Huxtable-Jester, University of Texas at Dallas

“For the teacher candidate, who is often encountering this material for the first time, the tables, organization, and formatting of the chapters make this text eminently accessible.”
Richard Battaglia, California Lutheran University

“The major strength of this text is its relevance to effective teaching. Slavin touches on various approaches and types of teaching and the consistent message of intentional teaching is evident.”
Joshua S. Smith, University at Albany

This edition continues to have in-depth, practical coverage with a focus on the intentional teacher. It presents up-to-the-minute research that a reflective, intentional teacher can apply. The eighth edition of this popular text from renowned educational psychologist Robert Slavin translates theory into practices that teachers can use in their classrooms and focuses on the concept of intentionality. An “intentional teacher,” according to Slavin, is one who constantly reflects on his or her practice and makes instructional decisions based on a clear conception of how these practices affect students. To help readers become “intentional teachers,” the author models best practices through classroom examples and offers questions to guide the reader.

New to This Edition:

NEW “Teaching Dilemmas” in all chapters introduce controversial issues of practice and ask students to reflect on their own beliefs with Reflective Questions. NEW “Certification Pointers” throughout the text note text content likely to appear on state certification tests. NEW “Personal Reflections” describe chapter-related events from the author’s own experience, helping students relate to the text as the product of a real author’s work. Updated throughout with important new coverage on programs for English language learners (Chapter 4), technology and No Child Left Behind (Chapter 9) to keep students abreast of current trends and issues. NEW IDEA updates are included in Chapter 12. NEW certification guides for state-specific tests in California, Texas, New York, and Florida as well as a general certification guide based on Praxis are available free with the text so that students can readily keep and use this text to prepare for their state certification tests.

Please visit the companion web site for this book at www.ablongman.com/slavin8e to find practice quizzes, web links, activities and more!

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Genres: Education, Psychology, Teaching, Textbooks, School, Reference, Nonfiction

640 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Robert E. Slavin is Co-director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a school textbook. It's boring. I had to read it; therefore, it's going on here since it took up so much of my time.

I'm saving all these textbooks. In August of 2019 when I get my degree I'm have a big bonfire!!!

[Izarra Moore · Rating 1 out of 5]

Judging from this book, educational psychology is a field of social science that examines formal education, a fundamentally horrible and inefficient method of knowledge transferral, and attempts to make it less awful, without actually changing the most horrible and inefficient parts about it. Since the industrial revolution, students have been shunted into age-based grade levels and classrooms (is there any other way to learn?) and guided through a planned curriculum by a teacher (suck from the teat of knowledge, little ones!) but now, thanks to educational psychologists, they'll also be ushered into "student-centered learning schemes" and "cooperative learning roles" and "project learning tasks" and other such jargony endeavors that continue to ignore the absolute Orwellian absurdity of knowledge coming from a lesson plan and textbook.

Meta-dislike.

[Sydney · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read for VA Tech ITMA program. It's educational pyschology, what more should/need I say?

[Biplob]

it is renowned book. i want to read

[James]

This popular book from renowned educational psychologist Robert Slavin translates theory into practices that teachers can use in their classrooms with a further inquiry into the concept of intentionality. An "intentional teacher," according to Slavin, is one who constantly reflects on his or her practices and makes instructional decisions based on a clear conception of how these practices affect students. To help readers become "intentional teachers," the author offers a set of questions to guide them and models best practices through classroom examples. Educational Psychology prepares teachers as no other text does. It teaches them to think about how students develop and learn, to make decisions before and during instruction, and to consider what constitutes evidence that their students are learning and succeeding. This edition includes new sections on brain research, expanded coverage of Title I, programs for language minority students, and comprehensive school reform. It contains new critiques of assessment and accountability strategies, and a substantially updated treatment of programming for students with special needs. A new feature, "Technology Cases," presents practical uses of technology related to the contents of the chapters. A self-check feature, appearing throughout the chapters, links chapter contents to INTASC standards, and self assessments at the end of each chapter are linked to the content and format of PRAXIS. Designed for anyone interested in educational psychology or in the psychology of learning.

[Lazzzis · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. This book is for those who want to be teachers, not for those who are students, although students can learn some from it.
2. Also a good guide for parents who have a kid.
3. Some parts are quite boring, especially the chapter about tests.
4. Educating is hard: most of the suggestions and theories make sense to me but in light of tight budget and time stress, I don't think schools and teachers will accept these ideas in practice.

[Nafay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished reading it from cover to cover and I would say it's a good textbook, covers broad ranges of topics with varying degrees. Definitely recommended for students of psychology or educational psychology

[Suradi · Rating 3 out of 5]

so nice

[Bryon Clough · Rating 3 out of 5]

I used this textbook about ten years ago for my educational psychology class. Now I am using another of his books for a grad level foundations of education class.

[Edie Walls · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loathed this class and I have to take it out on something so this book gets 2 stars.

[Plamena Ilcheva · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far, so educational. As a teacher, this gives me a great set of tools and is of much help. Reading on.

[Hannah W · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy to understand and reinforced topics for preservice teachers.

[elie · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book provides a general overview of many educational theories, mostly the popular, common-knowledge theories, such as those by piaget, vygotsky, erikson, etc. as the title suggests, it discusses the psychology behind development in an educational context, which provides educators with necessary information regarding these theories and how to use them in the classroom. overall, useful for both pre-service and current teachers.

[SG · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a brick.

[Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes, this a textbook, so naturally it is information-dense and dry at times. However, it was well-written and provides extremely useful information. Chapters covered topics such as theories of development, behavioral theories of learning, information processing and cognitive theories of learning, student-centered and constructivist approaches to learning, accommodating instruction to meet individual needs, the effective lesson, motivating students to learn, effective learning environments, and more.

[Nickie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Self-Assessments are limited because they focus only on the opening vignette. The sidebar videos I did not find beneficial. The effective teacher's classroom videos for the most part were usually very informative and relevant to applying skills to real life. The text was not difficult to read, but they could have expanded on a few areas instead of cramming lots of new information into a single paragraph. It didn't go into nearly enough things that I didn't already know about teaching and students. Not as informative as I had hoped.

[Ronni · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not have this edition, but rather a "Pearson Custom" that culled from this book. It was ok, I learned some good stuff from it, but there were several concepts that were unclear, even after much class discussion. I shouldn't hold it against the book that the professor didn't know what the book was trying to say either, but it's hard for me to give high marks to a text that creates more confusion and doesn't resolve it.

[Aqyas Dini · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good book to start if you want to have a wide understanding about educational psychology. What I like from this book is the "connect to others' part" things and "21st century skills" section. Also, there are a few activities that you can try--at class, if you are a teacher.

For a undergrad student, I recommend you to read "reflectively"--you read chapters by chapters by reflecting it with your own experiences.

[Peter · Rating 1 out of 5]

This edition ignores best practice of modern bookselling: putting a binding on the book.

There is little in this book that a year or two of classroom practice won't reveal to a thoughtful teacher.

[KaryC · Rating 5 out of 5]

Invaluable if you enter the classroom or simply want to understand students better as a parent or interested party. Clearly written, helpful, and broken down into manageable sections.

[Becky · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've run out of clever things to say about my boring textbooks......but I finished the book and the class, so all I have to say is Yea!

[Thomas Henderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well worth picking up even an older edition if you are

[Adeselna · Rating 3 out of 5]

The only issue I had with this book was the fact that it looked like a dictionary, instead of a book. It helped me with theory and some tables were really good.

[Tiffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the book I used to teach my college class this semester. Pretty thorough....

[Jessica Birt · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must for anyone entering the educational field! Great for a refresher as well!

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book for school. I found it very informational and got some very good ideas from reading the book.

[SUDHAKAR B]

need pdf format

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction to Educational Psychology, as it applies to teaching. I found the chapters on motivation to be especially interesting.

[Ayman Mouhcine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good book that contains a lot of information about kids and how they develop
it is written in a scientific but simple language :)

I really recommend it to teachers and also parents.

[Miranda · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a textbook.