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Learning and Motiviation in the Postsecondary Classroom
Learning and Motiviation in the Postsecondary Classroom Author:Marilla Svinicki Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom brings the findings and theories of educational psychology to classroom faculty, helping them to adopt a scholarly approach to understanding their students learning problems. Nine clearly written chapters demonstrate how learning theories can be successfully adapted to the class... more »room, and a useful appendix succinctly outlines the theories: cognitive, concept learning, social learning, constructivism, and motivational. Chapter 1 presents an overview and purposes of learning and motivation theories for postsecondary settings, and discusses the value of being a reflective practitioner and grounding instructional decisions in research and theory about learning.
Chapter 2 examines the findings from the cognitive theory of learning and how instruction can be developed to help students master basic information.
Chapter 3 discusses teaching for understanding. To be able to really use information they are learning, students have to understand it at more than a surface level.
Chapter 4 explores social learning theory to introduce ways of helping students master new skills.
Chapter 5 examines what is known about transfer and how to promote it.
Chapter 6 discusses self-regulated learning and presents strategies for students to master in order to become independent learners.
Chapter 7 introduces some of the wide variety of theories that have been proposed as explanations of learner motivation and synthesizes them into a set of practical strategies for instructors to follow.
Chapter 8 discusses some practical differences in learners that can inform instructional design more meaningfully.
Chapter 9 illustrates how the theories can be combined into an instructional design process that is truly based on solid research.« less