CONSTRUCTING UNDERGRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY CURRICULA: PROMOTING AUTHENTIC LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT IN THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY

Book ID/图书代码： 00580009B34222

English Summary/英文概要： In teaching undergraduate psychology, both new and experienced instructors are eager to find ways to engage students in learning and generate excitement for the subject matter. At the same time, instructors must balance these objectives with the need to:
align course content with APA-approved guidelines;integrate instructional strategies with authentic or "real-world" learning and assessment; andassess students’ mastery of course content.This valuable instructional resource presents a framework for constructing undergraduate psychology curricula to meet all of these objectives, while ensuring maximum flexibility across faculty, student, and institutional differences.
Promoting active and enduring learning within a constructivist educational context, this book links successful teaching practices to five APA-approved learning goals—knowledge base of psychology, research methods, critical thinking skills, application of psychology, and values—and the behaviorally stated outcomes associated with each.
Notably, this book demonstrates how to effectively gauge students’ academic progress from the introductory psychology course through completion of the baccalaureate degree.
This authoritative volume will appeal widely to psychology educators—including high school teachers and undergraduate faculty from 2-year, 4-year, and university settings—who are committed to instructional innovation and improvement.
Educators and their students will benefit from this systematic approach to course and program evaluation that integrates teaching, learning, and assessment in clearly identified and measurable terms.

Chinese Summary/中文概要：

Awards/获奖情况：

About the Author/作者介绍： Joseph A. Mayo earned bachelor’s degrees in psychology and political science from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and master’s and doctoral degrees in educational psychology from West Virginia University. He is presently a professor of psychology at Gordon College in Barnesville, Georgia, where he has served in both administrative- and teaching-faculty posts since 1989.
Mayo’s classroom research on constructivist pedagogical applications has been published in various book chapters and peer-reviewed journals, including Teaching of Psychology, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, and Constructivism in the Human Sciences. He also contributes regularly to Psychology Teacher Network—the quarterly newsletter of the APA Education Directorate—and presents often at regional, national, and international teaching conferences.
Based on his ongoing commitment to the scholarship of teaching and learning, Mayo was chosen to receive a 2003 Board of Regents’ Research in Undergraduate Education Award for the University System of Georgia and the 2005 Wayne Weiten Teaching Excellence Award of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. In April 2005, he was selected to serve on the APA Board of Educational Affairs Task Force on Strengthening the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Psychological Science.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：

原文第一章内容：暂无

手稿：暂无

大纲：有