The scholarly productivity of educational psychologists, indexed in terms of the number of papers published in professional journals in the field was the focus of this investigation. Five journals considered to be among the "core journals" in the field and, thus, those in which educational psychologists are likely to publish their scholarship were examined for the years 1991-1996. Both institut...

This paper analyzes a set of undergraduate engineering education curriculum reform proposals that have a relationship with educational research and cognitive psychology. In addition, the paper explores educational research and cognitive psychology research results that provide guidance on undergraduate engineering curriculum design.

1 Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 2 Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, 3 Department of Educational Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 4 Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 5 Department of Counseling and Educational ...

I am proud that throughout my professional career my path has crossed—if only symbolically—with that of the much-revered Professor Edward Lee Thorndike. For starters, Benton Underwood’s frequency theory, which years ago Elizabeth Ghatala and I used as a basis for several research investigations (e.g., Ghatala & Levin, 1976), has at least a psychological connection to Thorndike’s Law of Exercise...

Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, Department of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Children’s Learning Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States, Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, Department of Psychology, University of Alaba...

While reviews abound on theoretical topics in educational psychology, it is rare that we examine our field's instrumentation development, and what effects this has on educational psychology's evolution. To repair this gap, this paper investigates and reveals the implications of software technologies for researching and theorizing about core issues in educational psychology. From a set of approx...

As the focus of Australian educational research has shifted to studying the quality of teacher intervention, the notion of scaffolding is becoming increasingly popular among educators in different areas such as literacy and numeracy, early childhood education and educational psychology for adults. Vygotskian socio-cultural psychology, and the zone of proximal development (ZPD) in particular, is...

a comparative study of personality factors, life orientation and hope level in coronary heart patients and normal subjects     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] * , banehasmishishevan mr [3] , mahmoodi h [4] , amani saribagloo j [5]     received: 26 nov , 2012 accepted: 20 feb , 2013     abstract   background & aims : one of the most important topics in the field of health psychology is the inf...

The field of forensic psychology has experienced remarkable growth over the past three decades. Perhaps the best evidence of this growth is the number of forensic psychology training programs currently enrolling students. Those interested in forensic psychology can choose from several types of programs aimed at different educational outcomes. In addition, opportunities for postdoctoral fellowsh...