یادگیری با رویکرد مبتنی بر تحقیقات

عنوان فارسی:        توجیه یادگیری: رویکردی مبتنی بر پژوهش

عنوان انگلیسی:    Making Sense of Learning: A Research-Based Approach

This textbook brings together findings from global research on teaching and learning, with an emphasis on secondary and higher education. The book is unique in that the content is selected in an original way and its presentation reflects the most recent research evidence related to understanding. The book covers and presents themes that are based tightly on worldwide research evidence, scrupulously avoiding opinion or any dependence on the personal experience of the authors. The book starts by reflecting on educational research itself. The four chapters that follow relate the story of the research that shows how all humans learn and the variations within that framework. These chapters offer a tight framework that underpins much of the rest of the text. The next four chapters look at the way school curricula are organized and how the performance of learners can be assessed. They summarise the research evidence related to thinking skills and consider the importance of practical teaching. This is followed by two chapters that draw from the extensive social psychology research on attitude development as it applies in education, and then by two chapters that summarize the research related to major issues of controversy: the performativity agenda and the issue of quality. One chapter looks at the place of statistics in education. The next two chapters look at the evidence that can support or undermine many typical education beliefs, or myths and mirages. Finally, the last chapter brings it all together and looks into the future, pointing to some areas where future research is likely to be helpful, based on current knowledge.

• Provides an overview of worldwide research related to education
• Makes available what is directly relevant for the actual practice of teaching
• Takes a rigorously academic approach but relates it to teaching and learning practicalities
• Presents research findings in line with the findings of research

1. Introduction
2. How Do Students Learn?
3. A World of Information
4. Why Are Concepts Difficult?
5. Learner Characteristics
6. Models of the Curriculum
7. School Subjects and the Curriculum
8. Assessment Principles
9. Assessment Practicalities
10. Thinking Skills
11. Beliefs and Attitudes
12. The Development of Attitudes
13. Practical Teaching
14. Intelligence, Ability and Performance
15. Developing Quality Education
16. Making Sense of Statistics
17. Myths and Mirages
18. More Myths and Mirages
19. Educational Futures