Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology

Editor/Author: Salkind, Neil J.
Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Sage Publications

ISBN: 978-1-4129-1688-2
Category: psychology
Image Count: 72
Book Status: Available

Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology opens up the broad discipline of educational psychology to a wide and general audience. While the Encyclopedia includes some technical topics related to educational psychology, for the most part, it focuses on those topics that evoke the interest of the everyday reader.

This book is found in the following Credo Collections:

• SAGE Education Collection
• SAGE Reference Collection
• Education Collection

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• This two-volume reference work is meant as an introduction to educational psychology for a general audience. It includes more than 200 entries written by over 300 contributors on a variety of topics related to the field. Entries are organized alphabetically, and both volumes index the entire work. Editor Salkind (Univ. of Kansas) has included a reader's guide that groups related entries into thematic categories, e.g., "Classroom Achievement," "Cognitive Development," "Theory," and "Learning and Memory." Entries vary in length from 1,000 to over 5,000 words, and end with bibliographies of topical articles or seminal works. In addition, See Also references lead readers to other encyclopedia items. The notes are not always consistent; e.g., the entry on alternative assessment refers readers to assessment but includes no reciprocal referral. This encyclopedia offers a number of articles describing the research methods used in this field, making it more comprehensive than the single-volume Encyclopedia of School Psychology, ed. by S. W. Lee (CH, Nov'05, 43-1320), albeit more expensive.

  S. R. Rosenblatt
  California State University--Fullerton

• The Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology is a two-volume work edited by Neil Salkind, Professor of Psychology and Research in Education at the University of Kansas. It contains over 275 signed entries falling within the categories of human development, measurement, and teaching. Entries range from 1,000 words for smaller topics (e.g., Parent-Teacher Conferences, Fluid Intelligence) to 5,000 words for broader topics (e.g., Literacy) that contain subtopics (e.g., Policy Debates, Emergent Literacy). The contributors and their affiliations are provided in volume 1. Entries are arranged alphabetically and followed by sections with references (further readings) and related topics (see also). Access is provided in both volumes by an alphabetic list and a reader's guide that precede the entries. Both volumes also provide a comprehensive index at the back.Comparison with existing resources may be useful for libraries thinking about purchasing this work. Sage's one-volume Encyclopedia of School Psychology (see ARBA 2006, entry 756) provides some overlap, but does not cover topics from a human development perspective. M. E. Sharpe's three-volume Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development (see ARBA 2006, entry 275) provides similar coverage. However, the M. E. Sharpe resource is arranged thematically with references provided after each broad section. These structural differences make some topics (e.g., Dyslexia) easier to locate in the Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology. Overall, this is a good resource and is recommended for academic libraries, especially for those with departments or programs in educational psychology.

  Cynthia Crosser
  Social Sciences and Humanities Reference, Fogler Library, Univ. of Maine, Orono