Course Prefix and Number:
PSY 314
Date:
Learner Outcomes
The teacher candidate will identify and/or describe the basic principles of
multiple broad learning theories, including: behavioral learning, cognitive
learning, and social learning.
The teacher candidate will define and/or describe specific theories,
constructs, terms, or practices associated with each broad learning theory,
including but not limited to the following:
a. Behavioral Learning
-Operant conditioning
b. Cognitive Learning
- Information processing
- Knowledge construction
02/9/2010
Assessment
The teacher candidates will
complete three exams that
use multiple choice and/or
short essay and will be
asked to respond to
questions that will require
them to identify and to
describe the basic principles
of behavioral learning,
cognitive learning, and
social learning.
The teacher candidates will
complete three exams that
use multiple choice and/or
short essay and will be
asked to respond to
questions that will require
them to identify and to
describe specific theories,
constructs, terms, or
practices associated with
each broad learning theory
-Learning to learn (including metacognition ,mnemonics, study strategies,
critical thinking, problem solving and decision making)
c. Social Learning
-Bandura
-Vygotsky
-Modeling
-Self-efficacy
-Self-regulation, including reflection as a self-regulation strategy
d. Motivation and Learning
i. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
The teacher candidate will describe typical physical, cognitive, language,
moral, and social-emotional development from conception through
adolescence.
The teacher candidates will
complete three exams that
use multiple choice and/or
short essay and will be
asked to respond to
questions that will require
them to be able to describe
The teacher candidate will identify and/or describe the key components of
theories of human development, including but not limited to the theories
of: Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Freud, B. F. Skinner, and Bandura.
1. The teacher candidate will identify and/or describe effects of diverse
influences on learning and development, including hereditary,
environmental, normative, and non-normative influences.
2. The teacher candidate will apply their knowledge of effects of diverse
influences on learning and development to individuals from a variety of
cultural backgrounds.
3. The teacher candidate will identify and/or describe the key components of
Bronfenbrenner’s theory of ecological systems.
typical physical, cognitive,
language, moral, and socioemotional development
from conception through
adolescence.
The teacher candidates will
complete three exams that
use multiple choice and/or
short essay and will be
asked to respond to
questions that will require
them to be able to identify
and describe the key
components of theories of
human development.
1.The teacher candidates
will complete three exams
that use multiple choice
and/or short essay. They
will be asked to identify and
describe the effects of
diverse influences on
learning and development.
2. Teacher candidates will
be asked to complete
homework assignments or
annotated bibliographies
that require them to apply
their knowledge of the
effects of diverse influences
on learning and
development for individuals
from a variety of cultural
backgrounds. 3. Students
will complete questions on
one exam that require them
to be able to identify and/or
describe the key
components of
Bronfenbrenner’s theory of
ecological systems.