Educational psychology / N.L. Gage, David C. Berliner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Educational psychology: some background -- Educational psychology's purposes and methods -- The tasks and objectives of teaching -- 2. Student characteristics -- Intelligence -- The development of cognition, language and personality -- Human diversity and the schools: culture, gender and exceptionality -- 3. Learning and motivation: theories and applications -- Operant and social learning -- Memory, cognitive processing and the transfer of learning -- Motivation and learning -- 4. Teaching methods and practices -- Lecturing, explaining and small-group methods -- Individual instruction and humanistic education -- Classroom teaching -- 5. Assessment -- Basic concepts in assessment -- Assessment and standardized tests -- The teacher's assessments and grades.