Contents I. Educational Psychology: Some Background 1. Educational Psychology's Purposes and Methods 2. The Tasks, Standards, and Objectives of Teaching II. Student Characteristics 3. Cognitive Abilities 4. The Development of Cognition, Language, and Personality 5. Human Diversity and the Schools: Culture, Gender, and Exceptionality III.

Learning and Motivation: Theories and Applications 6. Behavioral and Social Views of Learning 7. Cognitive Learning: Processes and Strategies to Make Meaning 8. Motivation and Learning IV. Teaching Methods and Practices 9. Lecturing and Explaining 10. Teaching Small Groups: The Discussion Method and Cooperative Learning 11. Individual Instruction 12.

Classroom Teaching: The Orchestration of Methods V. Assessment 13. Basic Concepts in Assessment and the Interpretation of Standardized Testing 14. The Teacher's Assessment and Grading of Student Learning.