Edification Process & Behavioral psychology

Smruthi B
The principles of Psychological functioning

 Cognitive Thinking
 Motivation Stimulus
 Social and Emotional
dimensions of learning
 Contextual learning
 Result Assessment
 Cognitive Learning - What happens
inside a student’s head?
• Cognition is the process by which one acquires knowledge
through experience, thought and sensory input

1. Growth Mindset Students’ self-

2. Prior knowledge regulation assists
3. Limits of stage theories in learning and
4. Context facilitation self-regulatory
5. Practice
Students’ cognitive and repetition
development skills can
and learning arebe
not
6. Feedback
limited by general stages of development. taught
7. Self regulation
Learning
Acquiring
Clear, explanatory
islong-term
based on knowledge
and
context,
8. Creativitytimely
sofeedback
and
generalizing
skill istolargely
students
learningisto new
contexts
dependent
important
is not
on
for spontaneous,
practice
learning but rather needs to be facilitated
 Motivation Stimulus
“Students who are motivated and interested in
learning are more successful”

1. Intrinsic motivation
Students tend to enjoy learning and to do better when
2. Mastery goals
they are more intrinsically rather than extrinsically
3. Expected
motivated outcome
to achieve

4. Goal setting
Setting goals
Students
Expectations
persist
that
about
in are
the
students
short
face term
ofaffect
challenging
(proximal),
students’
tasks
specific
opportunities
and and
process
to
information
learn,
moderately
their motivation
more
challenging
deeplyand
enhances
when
their they
learning
motivation
adopt
outcomes
mastery
moregoals
than
rather than performance
establishing goals that aregoals
long term (distal), general and
overly challenging
Social and Emotional dimensions of learning

1. Social contexts
2. Interpersonal relationships
3. Well-being

Interpersonal relationships and communication

Emotional well-being influences educational
Learning
are is
critical situated
to both within
the multiple social contexts
teaching-learning
performance, learning, and development
process and the social development of students
 Contextual learning

1. Class-room learning
2. External Support and expectations

Effective classroom
Expectations for classroom
conduct and social
management is based
interaction
on (a)
are learned
setting and communicating
and can be
taught
high expectations,
using proven(b) principles
of behavior and
consistently nurturing
effective
positive
classroom instruction
relationships, and (c)
providing a high level of
student support
 Result and Assessment
The three principles devoted to the process of student evaluation discuss
methods for creating and implementing valid and fair assessments that
contribute to student learning
1. Formative and Summative
assessment
2. Assessment development
3. Assessment evaluation
Making sense of assessment data depends on clear, appropriate
and fairskill,
Student
Formative interpretation
and
knowledge,
summativeand assessments
ability are best
are both
measured
important
with and
assessment
useful, but they
processes
require
grounded
different in
approaches
psychological
andscience
interpretations
with
well-defined standards for quality and fairness