Current Readings in Educational Psychology

PART 1: Introduction
- "A Brief History of Educational Psychology", Robert I. Watson
- "Interpreting Research in Educational Psychology", Donn Byrne & Henry Clay Lindgren
PART 2: Growth and Development of Learners
- "The Beginning of the Self: The Problem of the Nurturing Environment", Ira J. Gordon
- "Parental Expectations for Independent Behaviors and Achievement of Elementary School Boys", Anita Whiting
- "Children’s Self-Concept and Kindergarten Achievement", Richard J. Ozehosky And Edward T. Clark
- "A Study of Seventh Grade Children’s Reading of Comic Books as Related to Certain Other Variables", W. Paul Blakely
- "Where Are the Siblings? A Re-evaluation of the Relationship Between Birth Order and College Attendance", William T. Smelser And Louis H. Stewart
PART 3: Mental Health of Learners
"Interpersonal Relations and Mental Health in the Classroom", Richard A. Schmuck, Margaret B. Luszki, And David C. Epperson
- "3.2 Social Schema of Normal and Disturbed School Children ", Rhoda Lee Fisher
- "3.3 The Disturbed Child in the Classroom", Katharine F. Tift
- "3.4 Effects on Cheating of Achievement Anxiety and Knowledge of Peer Performance", Jev Shelton And John P. Hill
- "3.5 Alienation of Present-Day Adolescents", Louis J. Wise, M.D.
- "3.6 Reducing Educational Pressures", Richard Dempsey
PART 4 The Learning Process: Theory, Research, and Practice
- "4.1 Psychoneurobiochemeducation", David Krech
- "4.2 A Self-Concept Theory of Learning: A Learning Theory for Teachers", Walcott H. Beatty And Rodney Clark
- "4.3 The Act of Discovery", Jerome S. Bruner
- "4.4 The Motivating Efiect of Learning by Directed Discovery", Bert Y. Kersh
- "4.5 A Comparative Study of Three Preschool Curricula", David P. Weikart
- "4.6 Modern Learning Theory and the Elementary School Curriculum", Patrick Suppes
Part 5 The Learning Situation and Its Management
- "5.1 Human Motivation and Environment", Lloyd E. Homme
- "5.2 Negative Attention Seeking or Tactical Provocation?", Ronald Gallimore
- "5.3 Social Reinforcement in Reducing Inappropriate Behavior", Alan S. Briskin And William I. Gardner
- "5.4 The Comparative Influence of Punitive and Nonpunitive Teachers upon Children’s Concepts of School Misconduct", Jacob S. Kounin And Paul V. Gump
- "5.5 Changes in Pupil Attitudes During the School Year", Ned A. Flanders, Betty M. Morrison, And E. Leland Brode
- "5.6 What Are We Rewarding?", James A. Conway
PART 6 The Evaluation of Learning
- "6.1 The Role of Evaluative Research", Edward A. Suchman
- "6.2 The Functions and Uses of Educational Measurement", Winton H. Manning
- "6.3 Testing Programs-Misconception, Misuse, Overuse", Frank B. Womer
- "6.4 Improving the Competence of Teachers in Educational Measurement", Robert L. Ebel
PART 7 Individual Difierences: Intelligence and Creativity
- "7.1 Heredity and Environment: A Controversy over IQ and Scholastic Achievement", Arthur R. Jensen
- "7.2 Educational Relevance and Jensen’s Conclusions", Nicholas Anastasiow
- "7.3 Diversity", John R. Platt
- "7.4 Brainstorming and Orneriness as Facilitators of Creativity", Henry Clay Lindgren And Fredrica Lindgren
- "7.5 Training Children to be Creative May Have Little Effect on Original Classroom Performance", Frank E. Williams
PART 8 Providing for Individual Differences
- "8.1 Effects of Accelerating Bright, Older Elementary Pupils - a Second Follow-up", Herbert J. Klausmeier, William L. Goodwin, And Teckla Ronda
- "8.2 The Ombudsman: Relevant Role Model for the Counselor", Michael A. Ciavarella And Lawrence W. Doolittle
- "8.3 A Work Experience Program for the Educable Mentally Retarded at the Elementary School Level", Mary Turner
- "8.4 Educational Disability in Emotionally Disturbed Children", F. Beth Stone And Vinton N. Rowley
- "8.5 School Grades and Group Therapy", Samuel Tenenbaum
- "8.6 New Programs for Dropouts", Herman Slotkin
Part 9 The Socially Disadvantaged Learner
- "9.1 Malnutrition and Learning", Rita Bakan
- "9.2 Mother-Child Interaction: Social Class Differences in the First Year of Life", Steven R. Tulkin And Jerome Kagan
- "9.3 Measures of Intelligence on Southwest Indian Students", Bert P. Cundick
- "9.4 The Early Training Project: A Seventh Year Report", Susan W. Gray And Rupert A. Klaus
- "9.5 A Comparison of the Problems of Certain Anglo- and Latin-American junior High School Students", Robert Paul Witherspoon
- "9.6 Negro Academic Motivation and Scholastic Achievement", Robert Lee Green And William W. Farquhar
- "9.7 Changes in Attitudes Toward Negroes of White Elementary School Students After Use of Multiethnic Readers", John H. Litcher And David W. Johnson
PART 10 The Psychology of Being a Teacher
- "10.1 Teachers' Communication of Diflerential Expectations for Children's Classroom Performances: Some Behavioral Data", Jere E. Brophy And Thomas L. Good
- "10.2 The American Teacher: A Tentative Psychological Description", Louis S. Levine
- "10.3 Authoritarianism, Independence, and Child-Centered Practices in Education: A Study of Values", Henry Clay Lindgren
- "10.4 Anxieties and Discontents in Teaching", Robert H. Snow
- "Index"