Purpose:
This activity is designed to help students become aware of educational
psychology research on topics covered in the textbook.
Objectives:
- Become aware of educational psychology research
- Develop skills for using the ERIC database
Student Project: Maintain chapter reading logs for each topic in the textbook: The logs
include: (1) a paragraph of three insights you gain from the chapter;
(2) ERIC search results you obtain in the library related to each topic;
and (3) comments on one of the articles you read related to the chapter
topic you found from your ERIC search.
Assessment:
Do you have logs for all chapters? Did you conduct ERIC searches for
all chapter topics? Did you read articles related to each chapter in
the textbook?
Variation:
- For ten to fifteen minutes during class, pass your journal logs
to a neighbor for comments and a question.
- You can volunteer to create a web database of journal logs of other
students.
- Bring one or two of the best articles you read during the semester.
Form teams of four or five people based on common interest. Work on
creating a short ten to fifteen minute presentation of what you learned
from the articles. Each team needs to create a handout to distribute
to the class.
