Thank you for visiting the McGraw-Hill Web site for Elliott et al., Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning, Third Edition!
Within these Web pages, you'll find information about the authors, features new to this edition, and the supplements that accompany this text. For professors, there are tools for instructional design and assessment. For students, there is an on-line student study guide containing chapter-by-chapter resources and on-line quizzing. For both student and professor, there are links to relevant Web sites, Web-based student activities, and additional valuable information for future teachers.
Our site is divided into four areas: About the Book, About the Authors, Instructor Resources, and Student Resources.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This section includes descriptions of the new features, supplement information, and an interactive table of contents that summarizes the primary themes and concepts of each chapter.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Read brief author biographies about Stephen N. Elliott, Thomas R. Kratochwill, Joan Littlefield Cook, and John F. Travers.
INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES
Instructors will find numerous ways to use the resources provided in this secured site (contact your McGraw-Hill sales representative for password information). The Tools for Teaching section includes:
PowerPoint Slides
developed from the text for professors to use to supplement their lectures.
The Instructor's Manual online is available as an alternative (or supplement) to the hardcopy version that accompanies the text. Written by one of the text's authors, this manual includes extensive teaching suggestions and resources for each chapter.
A Message Board invites you to share your ideas and comments with the authors and also to ask any questions you might have.
The How to Customize section provides instructions to order a customized version of the text.
In addition, the Instructor Resources also contain links to Web sites and listservs, suggested online student activities, and other resources. These are also included in the Student Resources to make it easy for instructors to assign relevant activities. An exciting facet of the instructors' site is McGraw- Hill's PageOut Online, which provides instructors with the means to create their own course Web site that includes Home, Syllabi, Lecture Notes, Bookmarks, Instructor, and Assignment pages.
STUDENT RESOURCES
Students have access to several different curricular accessories in this site. Support material for each chapter includes the following components:
Objectives
aid students in quickly focusing on the primary themes and concepts for each chapter.
Suggested Activities
include Web-based activities that offer students opportunities for exploring chapter concepts more deeply using educational technology.
Sites to Explore
provides students with additional online resources relevant to topics and themes for each chapter.
Resources
lists literary references that provide valuable supplemental information for student research.
Chapter Quiz is an interactive online quiz that includes questions that challenge students to utilize factual, applied, and conceptual knowledge.
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