Senin, 21 Februari 2011 | 21.34 | 10 Comments

Educational Psychology

Educational psychology is the branch of psychology that deals with the description and explanation of the psychological components of education, learning and socialization processes, including its forms and situations. The findings of educational psychology to try to apply for the optimization of educational action and to his goal-oriented change. The tasks and scope of educational psychology includes all social fields and institutions of education, training and socialization systems of different societies and cultures. [1]
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* 1 subjects of educational psychology
* 2 Literature
* 3 Pictures
* 4 References

Issues of educational psychology

The educational psychology such as the industrial and organizational psychology and clinical psychology, a branch of applied psychology. Issues of educational psychology (eg analysis of school performance) are also in the context of educational science, than that with the canon of empirical-quantitative research working branch of education, treatment and this trend is ultimately through initiated by Heinrich Roth "empirical turn" of education was raised.

Issues of educational psychology are - as is clear already from the definition of this subject - the optimization of education in promoting, teaching and teaching in preschool, school, college, adult education and at home. Knowledge of educational psychology are used in educational counseling, school psychology and counseling psychology in general to use. Prerequisite for this is the knowledge of the educational and psychological assessment, learning and instructional psychology, developmental psychology factors in children, the social-psychological factors in the respective contexts of the various institutions and the specific circumstances of educators, teachers and parents. Other topics of educational psychology are:

* 1 Interaction: Basic, educationally relevant perspectives from the perspective of psychology, for example, socialization theories of man, the interactions between parents and child or teacher-student and student-student interaction and its consequences for the individuals involved ( children, parents, students, teachers). The educational psychology makes use of developmental and social-psychological insights.

* 2 Intervention, prevention, funding: Another aspect of the educational psychology are prevention and intervention, which come in pre-school support programs, scholarships for students with learning disabilities or behavioral problems and also in the gifted to the expression. Various aspects of learning such as self-regulated learning or self-directed learning and different learning strategies are considered. In addition to this aspect also includes the development of curricular guidelines and a multi-media learning. Funding, prevention and intervention measures may also relate to educators (teachers, parents) (eg, parent training, programs to support teachers' health, reduce anxiety or teachers to promote teaching skills).

* 3 Diagnosis: An additional aspect is the educational and psychological assessment, dealing with learning checks within the meaning of criterion or social standards-related testing, both formal and informal, in school grading in general, and the evaluation of school performance comparison - in the last decade also TIMSS and PISA - busy. must also be demonstrated in each of the intervention, the success of an action by appropriate diagnostic measures.

Important issues of educational psychology are:

Intelligence, talent, giftedness
Performance anxiety
Motivation, extrinsic vs. intrinsically
Motivation, achievement motivation
Interpersonal perception
Aspects of school education
Teaching quality
Assessment of performance in school
Family, immigrant children, the disabled, social disadvantage
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Sabtu, 15 Januari 2011 | 01.50 | 5 Comments

10 Free Google SEO Tools Must Know

Some people, even at Google, still think that Google hates SEO. In some cases it really does. At the same time Google loves SEO as actions speak louder than words. Google provides not a few, not several but by now 10 free Google SEO tools everybody should use. I remember the times when we had none of them. Today we have an abundance of data Google allows us to mine.

You know, I’m often quite critical of Google but when there is one thing the search giant does right then it’s the plethora of tools it offers. So here is the list of 10 free Google SEO tools everybody should use. Most of these SEO tools are good for keyword research and on page SEO. Please read to the end, I guess some of you won’t know all of them.

Google Webmaster SEO Tools

Google Webmaster tools is the equivalent of a mechanic looking after you car daily but for websites of course. Identify broken links, malware and other issues and find out what search queries lead to your pages even with clickthrough statistics. It even checks your website speed and tells you why it’s too slow.

Google Analytics


In case you still don’t know GA you have probably slept for years. Some SEOs don’t use it due to paranoia of being controlled by Google though. You have to decide yourself what’s more important, a very useful analytics tools or the fact that Matt Cutts can look under your skirt.

Google Website Optimizer


With Google Website Optimizer you can test different versions of your pages. This way you can determine the best converting ones. It’s called A/B split testing or multivariate testing and is all the rage lately in SEO circles and beyond.

Google Zeitgeist

Google Zeitgeist is not a tool in the strictest sense but you can use it keyword research nonetheless. In fact it shows the most popular queries so it’s a good starting point in your SEO campaign. Take the Zeitgeist popular keywords and then test some keyphrases containing them with the other tools that will follow in this list. Also checkout the current Zeitgeist aka Hot Trends.

Google Trends

Google Trends lets you compare traffic for popular search terms and websites. This way you can determine whether a topic is rising in popularity or not. Works gret combined with Google Zeitgeist and Google Insight for Search

Google Insights for Search


Insights for Search is like Google Trends on steroids. You can look up most keywords here, even those that aren’t popular at all. Compare up to five keywords and their ensuing traffic.

Google Traffic Estimator


This is a classic tool. It says “Adwords” but you can use it to find out the probably number visitors a keyword can bring to your site.


Google Keyword SEO Tool


The Keyword Tool is like the Traffic Estimator but from a differnet angle. Some people prefer this others prefer that. You’ll want to check both to make sure you’re on the right track with your keywords.

Google Search Based Keyword Tool


This very neat tool allowas you to find out related keywords to a site or existing keyword or rather both. It’s connected to Google Insights for Search is a very useful way.

Google Ad Planner


Google Ad Planner is like Alexa and SpyFu in one. Use it to screen popular sites or your competitors for keyword intelligence or both.

While using theses tools remember to take the numbers with a grain of salt, they are never completely accurate but in many cases thy are the best numbers we can get. As you can see Google facilitates both keyword research and on page SEO. We get even some assistance with link building by Webmaster Tools.

So does Google hate SEO? Maybe some engineers are rooted in the past or prefer prejudice over judgment but based on the tools Google works together with webmasters and SEOs the best it can. Don’t ignore the tools Google offers. You lose money right now when you do.

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