Unit of Study: EDPE6011 - Learning and Individual Differences
This unit examiners major areas of individual differences among learners and ways in which educational provision may be adapted to accommodate these differences in helping each student to achieve major learning outcomes. Consideration will be given to areas of cognitive and social-motivational differences, learning styles gender differences and differences between advantaged/disadvantaged groups to major components of programs designed to meet individual differences. Particular attention will be given to implications of research which (a) explores aptitude-treatment interactions, (b) elucidates the mediating processes involved in adaptive provisions and (c) evaluates outcomes of major forms of provision for individual differences.
Unit coordinator: Dr Richard Walker
Classes: 13 wks x 2 hrs
Assessment: seminar paper and presentation essay
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