Learning Processes and Problems
Subject EDUC90226 (2010)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.
Credit Points: | 6.25 | ||||||||||||
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Level: | 9 (Graduate/Postgraduate) | ||||||||||||
Dates & Locations: | This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010: July, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here. | ||||||||||||
Time Commitment: | Contact Hours: 12 hours plus 60 hours of non-contact commitment Total Time Commitment: Not available | ||||||||||||
Prerequisites: | None | ||||||||||||
Corequisites: | None | ||||||||||||
Recommended Background Knowledge: | None | ||||||||||||
Non Allowed Subjects: | None | ||||||||||||
Core Participation Requirements: | Attendance at all classes (tutorial/seminars/practical classes/lectures/labs) is obligatory. Failure to attend 80% of classes will normally result in failure in the subject. |
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Ms Vicki MckenzieContact
Education Student CentreSubject Overview: | This subject reviews contemporary theories of learning, individual differences in learning, competence versus performance, cognitive and social influences on the means by which individuals display knowledge, the development, implementation and evaluation of appropriately-referenced instructional procedures, developmental trends in the acquisition of knowledge in the areas of literacy and mathematics, the psychology of learning disabilities, the assessment of learning disabilities and the design and implementation of effective intervention. Throughout the focus is on how these issues can inform the work of the educational psychologist. |
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Objectives: |
On subject completion students should be able to
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Assessment: | Written assignments of not more than 4,000 words (100 per cent). |
Prescribed Texts: | Eggen,P &Kauchak, D. (1999). Educational Psychology : Windows on classrooms. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall |
Breadth Options: | This subject is not available as a breadth subject. |
Fees Information: | Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date |
Generic Skills: | On completion of this subject students should be able to
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Links to further information: | www.education.unimelb.edu.au |
Related Course(s): |
Doctor of Educational Psychology Master of Educational Psychology Master of Educational Psychology/Doctor of Philosophy |
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