Psychological Theory And Educational Practice: Human Development, Learning And Assessment (Routledge Library Editions: Psychology Of Education)

8 Human learning: attitudes, systems and policies -- Attitudes and attitude change -- Learning systems -- Programmed learning -- Learning for transfer -- Slow learning -- Perspective on attitudes, systems and policies -- 9 Educational and psychological assessment -- Purposes of assessment -- Some fundamentals of assessment -- Samples and distributions -- Validity and reliability -- Comparing and combining assessments -- Perspective on assessment -- 10 Assessment and guidance -- Objective tests -- Objective tests of intelligence -- Assessing personality -- Interviews, reports and ratings -- Examinations -- Guidance or counselling -- Perspective on assessment and guidance -- I I Handicap and behaviour problems -- Handicap: categories, incidence and attitudes -- Behaviour disorders-Thomas, Chess and Birch -- Symptoms of maladjustment -- The treatment of maladjustment -- Delinquency -- Perspective on handicap and behaviour problems -- 12 Psychological theory and educational practice -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: H. S. N. McFarland
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 338 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415786959
• | ISBN-13: 9780415786959