Psychology, Educational
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Psychology's role in mathematics and science education.

30 Aug 2009 Improving mathematics and science education in the United States has been a matter of national concern for over half a century. Psychology has a vital role to play in this enterprise. In this article, the authors review the kinds of contributions ... Read more...

Intervention effects on college performance and retention as mediated by motivational, emotional, and social control factors: integrated meta-analytic path analyses.

30 Aug 2009 Using both organizational and educational perspectives, the authors proposed and tested theoretical models on the mediating roles that psychosocial factors (PSFs; motivational, emotional, and social control factors) play between college ... Read more...

Web-based weight management programs for children and adolescents: a systematic review of randomized controlled trial studies.

29 Jun 2009 More than 17% of children aged 6 to 19 years living in the United States are classified as overweight. Medical costs related to overweight and obesity were recently estimated to approximate $100 billion annually. The purpose of this systematic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychology, Educational'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Psychology's role in mathematics and science education. 30 Aug 2009
• Intervention effects on college performance and retention as mediated by motivational, emotional, and social control factors: integrated meta-analytic path analyses. 30 Aug 2009
• Web-based weight management programs for children and adolescents: a systematic review of randomized controlled trial studies. 29 Jun 2009
• Development of a urinary incontinence educational program using a competency-based approach and case method. 29 Jun 2009
• The learning divide. 29 Jun 2009
• Developing a blended course on dying, loss, and grief. 29 Apr 2009
• A second generation of the competency-based approach to nursing education. 28 Apr 2009
• Supporting the development of calculating skills in nurses. 30 Mar 2009
• Acute heart failure: too sick for discharge teaching? 30 Mar 2009
• Mitigating knowledge loss: a strategic imperative for nurse leaders. 30 Mar 2009
• Preceptor use of classroom assessment techniques to stimulate higher-order thinking in the clinical setting. 27 Feb 2009
• Exposing shame and its effect on clinical nursing education. 27 Feb 2009
• The challenges of setting up a teaching event for health-care staff. 27 Feb 2009
• Modern psychometrics for assessing achievement goal orientation: a Rasch analysis. 22 Feb 2009
• Teaching and learning. 30 Jan 2009
• Staff-student relationships and their impact on nursing students' belongingness and learning. 30 Jan 2009
• The medical consultation viewed as a value chain: a neurobehavioral approach to emotion regulation in doctor-patient interaction. 16 Jan 2009
• Applying Weick's model of organizing to health care and health promotion: highlighting the central role of health communication. 14 Jan 2009
• A practitioner's guide to persuasion: an overview of 15 selected persuasion theories, models and frameworks. 8 Jan 2009
• Educational innovations for dentistry. 8 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychology, Educational'

Definition: The branch of psychology concerned with psychological aspects of teaching and the formal learning process in school.

Descriptor UI: D011588

Alternative terms: Psychology, Educational; Educational Psychology; Educational Psychologies; Psychologies, Educational;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.784.629; F04.096.628.679;

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; DF: PSYCHOL EDUC