Educational Psychology Research Paper Topics
Educational psychology research papers are written following research that is usually conducted within educational settings, with the aim of discovering the factors affecting how learners learn, and understanding any barriers to learning. Implicit in the discipline of educational psychology is the notion that research into learning will yield valuable knowledge to teachers about how best to facilitate learning.
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How Classrooms Aid Learning
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Classroom practitioner Michael James D'Amato is well aware of the classroom's importance in assisting and promoting learning. His book, "The Classroom," is full of tips for teachers on how to maximize the classroom's resources. A good research project in this area would study several different classrooms from the perspective of students, to try to discover how exactly the physical classroom aids learning and whether a different classroom layout and resources could aid learning more.
Research Skills in the Internet Age
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Most classrooms now have Internet access, and in many cases students can find the information they need online, rather than in the school library. A good research topic would investigate how students learn their online skills, and whether those skills are adequate for the 21st century. The report could also seek to provide clues as to how best to enable learners to search, sift and select from Internet sources.
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Special Education Subgroups
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Indiana University's Suzanne E. Eckes and Julie Swando point out that there haven't been many research studies done on the apparent conflict between the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Both acts aim to ensure a fair education for all, but perhaps they work against each other. A good research project would examine this supposed clash to try to discover whether the two education acts are in fact counterproductive.
Memory Skills and Learning
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Good learners usually have good memory skills. Indeed, learning can be defined as the ability to recall. But some learners apparently have much better recall than others. Why this is so would be a good topic for research and a subsequent paper. Perhaps there are memory strategies still waiting to be discovered that would help learners with less sophisticated recall skills to improve them. An educational psychology research paper would aim to shed some light on the issue.
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