Dr. Womack's EDFD6043 Current Issues in Human Learning Page

This course is getting a dusting off due to plans to include it in the Master of Elementary Education Special Education option. Watch for changes in the next little while.

We now have a way to access my Power Points and handouts from off campus in much the same way as if you had been on campus and within the Local Area Network. Either click ftp://tdata.atu.edu or paste this location into your browser. Either Netscape or Explorer will take you to that FTP area; from there, just go to swdata to find folders for the classes I teach.

A previous class asked for some key words or key terms to help you in locating journal articles for the class or topics for the class report. You are not limited to only these, but here are some examples:

memory, retrieval, forgetting
rehearsal, elaboration, repetition
encoding
mneumonics, rehearsal strategies, meaninfulness
positive reinforcement, extinction, negative reinforcement, presentation of aversive consequences
advance organizers, cognitive mapping, graphic organizers
perception
massed and spaced practice
intelligence tests
culture fair vs. culture free testing
learning disabilities
mental retardation
paired associative learning
problem solving, higher order thinking

Hopefully these will help get you started.

To see a sample of how to do the readings, click here .

If you need a copy of the syllabus, click here .

Important dates, revised.

February 5--Article One review due no later than 5: 00 P. M.
February 19--Test One
March 5--Article Two review due no later than 5: 00 P. M.
March 12--Test Two likely
March 17--Spring Break, no classes
April 2--Article Three due
April 7--group reports by Power Point begin and continue until finished
April 16--Test Three. Possibly a take-home test
April 21--Article Four review due
May 7--final exam

Course-related Links

Gagne' Power Point--the organizer for the course
Chapter One--Facts, hypotheses, theories, laws.
Background of Behaviorism.
Chapter Three--Classical Conditioning.
Chapter Four--.
Chapter Five--Higher level applications of Operant Conditioning.
Chapter Six--Effects of Aversive Stimuli.
Chapter Seven--Social Learning Theory (Modeling)
Chapter Eight--Early Cognitivism.
Chapter Nine--Information Processing Model
Chapter Ten--More on the Information Processing Model
Chapter Eleven--Still more on the Information Processing Model
Chapter Twelve--Metacognition
Chapter Thirteen--Using Information-Processing Theory in Expository Instruction
Chapter Fourteen--Using Learning Theories to Promote Effective Study Strategies
Chapter Fifteen--Transfer and Problem Solving
Chapter Sixteen--Using Learning Theories Including Brain Research to Promote Learning Through Groups
A general, briefer look at learning theories and some developmental theories.
Library of Congress
Phi Delta Kappa search facility
ERIC searches on-line
Search engine for legal information
Pathways to School Improvement
Arkansas Department of Education
Arkansas Tech University library search

Samples of Student Work

We are proud to present some examples of student work. This collection is gradually being added to. Occasionally there are good examples of student work that do not copy well electronically. The omission of student products on this website is in no way a comment on the quality of the work done.

Motivation and Controlling Anxiety Basic Principles of Human Learning

Multiple Intelligences Autism in the U. S. and Taiwan

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Motivation and Controlling Anxiety	Basic Principles of Human Learning
Multiple Intelligences	Autism in the U. S. and Taiwan
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