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GENERAL INFORMATION:
Course title : PY 300 Educational Psychology |
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Campus : National, Chuuk, Kosrae, Yap |
Initiator: Pearl Habuchmai Olter-Pelep and Susan Moses |
Date: February 2018 |
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Course description: This course builds on theories and concepts taught in PY 201 Human Growth and Development. The course focuses on classroom application of theories of learning and development, intelligence, motivation, behavior modification principles, development of instructional objectives, Bloom's taxonomy, task analysis of FSM and state curriculum standards and benchmarks, and assessment of student learning. The student analyzes authentic situations in the elementary classroom and recommends ways to improve student learning. Student professionalism is measured. |
COURSE HOURS/CREDITS:
Hours per Week |
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No. of Weeks |
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Total Hours |
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Semester Credits |
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Lecture |
3 |
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16 |
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48 |
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3 |
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Laboratory |
X |
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Lecture/Lab |
X |
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Workshop |
X |
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Total Semester Credits |
3 |
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PURPOSE OF COURSE:
[X] Degree requirement
[ ] Degree elective
[X] Certificate
[ ] Other
PREREQUISITES: None
PSLOS OF OTHER PROGRAMS THIS COURSE MEETS:
PSLO# |
Program |
None |
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1) INSTITUTIONAL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
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1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. |
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2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum. |
[X] |
3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion. |
[X] |
4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal. |
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5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts. |
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6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand. |
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7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning : purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence. |
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8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats. |
2) PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (PSLOs): The student will be able to:
1. Task analyze FSM and State curriculum standards and benchmarks and develop lesson plans that align with the benchmarks, include strategies for differentiation of learning, integrate two or more subject areas, and link the concepts to the students' environment.
2. Deliver lessons using a variety of teaching approaches, including development of materials and application of technology, to meet the differentiated needs of FSM elementary school students including students with special needs.
3. Assess and evaluate student learning at both the formative and summative levels.
4. Organize and manage an elementary classroom environment for learning.
5. Demonstrate professionalism.
3) COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (CSLOs) (General): The student will be able to:
1. Compare and contrast psychosocial, cognitive, and moral theories of development and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improve teaching and learning in an FSM classroom.
2. Compare and contrast behavioral, information processing, social cognitive, and constructivist theories of learning and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improve teaching and learning in an FSM classroom.
3. Compare and contrast behavioral, social cognitive, and humanistic views of student motivation
and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improve teaching and learning in
an FSM classroom.
4. Compare and contrast definitions of intelligence and summarize ways to apply understanding of
each to improve teaching and learning in an FSM classroom.
5. Develop measurable instructional objectives at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy of the
Cognitive Domain and task analyze FSM and State Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks in a
variety of subjects.
6. Differentiate formative and summative assessment; criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and
standards-based tests; test reliability and validity; and various types of standardized test scores
and align assessment with instructional objectives.
4) COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (CSLOs) (Specific): Student will be able to:
3. CSLO (General) 1: Compare and contrast the psychosocial, cognitive, and moral theories of development and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improve teaching and learning in an FSM classroom. |
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Student Learning Outcome (specific) |
ISLO |
PSLO |
Assessment Strategies |
1.1 Compare and contrast the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, and Kohlberg and summarize ways to apply understanding of each theory to improvement of teaching and learning in the FSM classroom |
2,3,4 |
1,2 |
1.1 Student completes a table or writes a paper comparing and contrasting the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, and Kohlberg. Student also summarizes ways to apply understanding of each theory to improvement of teaching and learning in the FSM classroom. A scoring rubric will be used. |
4. CSLO (General) 2: Compare and contrast the behavioral, information processing, social cognitive, and constructivist theories of learning and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improve teaching and learning in an FSM classroom. |
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Student Learning Outcomes (specific) |
ISLO |
PSLO |
Assessment Strategies |
2.1 Compare and contrast the theories of Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura, information processing (memory), and discovery learning and summarize ways to apply understanding of each theory to improvement of teaching and learning in the FSM classroom |
2,3,4 |
1,2 |
2.1 Student completes a table or writes a paper comparing and contrasting the theories of Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura, and discovery learning. Student also completes a diagram and completes a chart or writes a paper comparing and contrasting the components of the information processing model. Student also summarizes ways to apply understanding of each theory to improvement of teaching and learning in an FSM classroom. A scoring rubric will be used. |
CSLO (General) 3: Compare and contrast behavioral, social cognitive, and humanistic views of student motivation and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improve teaching and learning in an FSM classroom. |
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Student Learning Outcomes (specific) |
ISLO |
PSLO |
Assessment Strategies |
3.1 Compare and contrast the views of Skinner, Bandura, and Maslow on student motivation and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improvement of teaching and learning in an FSM classroom |
2,3,4 |
1,2 |
3.1 Student completes a table or writes a paper comparing and contrasting the views on student motivation of Skinner, Bandura, and Maslow. Student also summarizes ways to apply understanding of each to improvement of teaching and learning in an FSM classroom. A scoring rubric will be used. |
CSLO (General) 4: Compare and contrast definitions of intelligence and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improve teaching and learning in an FSM classroom. |
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Student Learning Outcomes (specific) |
ISLO |
PSLO |
Assessment Strategies |
4.1 Compare and contrast the definitions of intelligence supported by Wechsler, Sternberg, and Gardner and summarize ways to apply understanding of each to improvement of teaching and learning in an FSM classroom |
2,3,4 |
1,2 |
4.1 Student completes a table or writes a paper comparing and contrasting the definitions of intelligence of Wechsler, Sternberg, and Gardner. Student also summarizes ways to apply understanding of each to improvement of teaching and learning in an FSM classroom. A scoring rubric will be used. |
CSLO (General) 5: Develop measurable instructional objectives at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain and task analyze FSM and State Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks in a variety of subjects. |
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Student Learning Outcomes (specific) |
ISLO |
PSLO |
Assessment Strategies |
5.1 Develop measurable instructional objectives at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain and task analyze FSM and State Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks in a variety of subjects. |
2*,3,4 |
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5.1 Student writes measurable instructional objectives at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain on an assignment or quiz. Given FSM and State Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks in a variety of subjects, student task analyzes each. Scoring rubrics will be used. |
CSLO (General) 6: Differentiate formative and summative assessment; criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and standards-based tests; test reliability and validity; and various types of standardized test scores and align assessment with instructional objectives. |
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6.1 Differentiate examples of formative and summative assessment; examples of criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and standards-based tests; descriptive statistics; and types of standardized test scores. Discuss in writing factors that contribute to test reliability and validity. Align assessment with instructional objectives. |
2,3,4 |
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6.1 On a written exam, student differentiates examples of formative and summative assessment; examples of criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and standards-based tests; descriptive statistics; and types of standardized test scores. Student also discusses in writing factors that contribute to test reliability and validity and designs assessment activities that are aligned with instructional objectives. Exam is scored with a key and accompanying rubric. |
5) COURSE CONTENT:
1. Theories of psychosocial, cognitive, and moral development
2. Applications of theories of psychosocial, cognitive, and more development to FSM
classrooms
3. Behavioral, information processing, social cognitive, and constructivist theories of learning
4. Applications of behavioral, information processing, social cognitive, and constructivist
theories of learning to FSM classrooms
5. Definitions of intelligence
6. Applications of views of intelligence to FSM classrooms
7. Development of measurable instructional objectives
8. Bloom's taxonomy
9. Task analysis of FSM Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks
10. Formative and summative assessment
11. Criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and standards-based tests
12. Descriptive statistics
13. Test reliability and validity
14. Interpretation of standardized test scores
15. Alignment of assessment with instructional objectives
6) METHOD(S) OF INSTRUCTION:
[X ] Lecture [X ] Cooperative learning groups
[ ] Laboratory [X] In-class exercises
[X] Audio visual [X] Demonstrations
[ ] Other
7) REQUIRED TEXT(S) AND COURSE MATERIALS:
Eggen, P. & Kauchak, D. (2013). Educational psychology: windows on classrooms.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill (or most recent edition). ISBN-13:
978-0-13-261021-6
Moses, S. (2011). FSM Teacher Competency Exam Preparation Manual. FSM National Dept. of
Education.
8) REFERENCE MATERIALS:
None
9) INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS:
None
10) EVALUATION: Summative evaluation is accomplished by having the students write a reflection paper and submit a portfolio of the written implications and worksheets provided in class. Both the reflection paper and portfolio are scored with rubrics. The Professionalism Rubric is completed twice during the semester.
11) CREDIT BY EXAMINATION:
None
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