EDUC-200: Educational Psychology

Credits 3
Grade Scheme
BC
Session Cycle
FS

This course surveys principles of development, learning, and evaluation as it relates to the educational process.  Emphasis is placed on understanding the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual aspects of human development. The course is taught from a community of learning perspective and breaks down learning theory according to the frame of six schools of learning: developmentalists, behaviorists, information processors, cognitivists, social cognitivists, and constructivists.  Integration of learning theory into practice and basic understanding of informal, formative, and summative assessment is taught.

Term Offered
Fall and Spring