Educational Psychology

Code:

P601

Acronym:

PE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	159	Official Curricular Structure 2007/2008	3	-	4	36	108

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

General aims: to motivate students to the wide and complex educational issues

Specific goals (cognitive-behavioral):
Learning the main topics of this course
centered on the teaching-learning process,
and necessary skills to intervene, particularly in school context.

Program

Part I (learning / student)
1. Concept, status and history of educational psychology
2. Intelligence, memory and learning.
3. Motivation, personality and learning
4. Learning disabilities
5. School problems
6. Giftedness and creativity

Part II (teaching / teacher)
7. Personality, expectations and effectiveness of the teacher
8. Group dynamics and discipline in the classroom
9. Educational relationship
10. Psychological development and education
11. Educational aims, assessment and observation
12. Competences of school psychologists and their interaction with teachers

Mandatory literature

Barros de Oliveira; Psicologia da Educação - Aprendizagem/aluno, LivPsic, 2007
Barros de Oliveira; Psicologia da Educação- Ensino/Professor, LivPsic, 2007
Sternberg e Williams; Educational Psychology, Allyn-Bacon, 2002
Sprinthall e Sprinthall; Psicologia educacional - Uma abordagem desenvolvimentista, McGraw-Hill, 1993
Santrock; Educational Psychology, McGraw-Hill, 2008

Teaching methods and learning activities

Preliminary presentation by the professor as an introduction to the several topics.
Brief presentations led by students about the various topics, followed by discussion.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Minimum attendance in classroom according to law (75%).
Distributed Assessment consisting of:

1) Final evaluation (exam) and
2) Continuous evaluation including:
a) a brief presentation in class of a chapter or subchapter of reference books with discussion:
Educational Psychology (vols 1 and 2) and Educational Psychology – complementary topics;
b) written work (only with a brief theoretical or empirical exercise) about some of the topics learned in class or other complementary topic, with previous approval by the lecturer.

Each of the three items (the final written test, oral and written work) worths approximately one third of the final grade.

Points 1) and 2a) are required. Item 2b) is optional. This means that for students who don’t intend to make the written work, the exam will worth two thirds of the total.

At any case the minimum classification in the final exam cannot be less than 8, as well as in the other components of assessment.

All students will be assessed by the same way.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam 34%
Written exercise 33%
Oral exposition 33%

Examinations or Special Assignments

All students will be assessed by the same way

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Only final exam

Classification improvement

Exam repetition