Essays on Educational Psychology

When people think of psychology, some might think that it is mainly studied to help with people with a mental illness or to help cure people. Even though this is partly true, there is more to it. Psychology is the study of the mind and...

The unidimensional graded response model, an item response theory (IRT) model, can be used to improve the assessment of psychological trait and evaluate the psychometric properties of the scale. Typically, psychological measurement utilizes ‘classical’ statistical techniques (e. g. , reliability and factor analysis). However, implementing...

Classical conditioning is known as the association between an involuntary response due to stimuli (Commons & Giri, 2016), An example would that since your animals know their food comes out of a specific cabinet, they will come to you whenever that cabinet is opened. This...

Despite the rapidly evolving technological world around us, humans remain our most important asset. They are the initiators, driving force, and mind behind all developments and businesses. Therefore, a better understanding of behaviour and the way the mind works and more importantly, an application of...

The term “gamification” became a trend in the past few years as its showed to be helpful in making the education process more excited and interesting to the community (Hamari, Koivisto, & Sarsa, 2014). Gamification is defined as using a game for education purpose, combined...

Out-of-field phenomenon is widespread in educational environment although it was largely unrecognized phenomenon until it was highlighted by Ingersoll who applied the term to those teachers assigned to teach subjects, for which they had little education, or which did not match their field of specialty...

When we talked about the definition of leadership, definitely, there are multiple definitions and different leadership theories exist. According to searchcio. techtarget. com, Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and guide followers or other members of an...

The unidimensional graded response model, an item response theory (IRT) model, can be used to improve the assessment of psychological trait and evaluate the psychometric properties of the scale. Typically, psychological measurement utilizes ‘classical’ statistical techniques (e. g. , reliability and factor analysis). However, implementing...

It’s been more than a hundred years since the ideas of Dyslexia and Word Blindness appeared. Over this time these ideas have slowly evolved into our modern understanding of dyslexia. Even though our modern understanding of dyslexia is still somewhat incomplete and vague, it has...

For my second work placement I worked as an Assistant Researcher at a teaching hospital. My Department focused on Population Health and Infectious Diseases; a new area for me, as it was not covered in my degree modules. However, unlike my first placement, I did...