PSYCH 133F
Psychology and Education
Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 10, 100A. Application of principles of cognitive development, learning, and perception to educational problems. Topics include general instructional issues, psychology of reading and mathematics, exceptional children, early childhood education, and education of the disadvantaged. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2020 - Professor Givvin is such a gem. This class turned out to be one of the most interesting classes I've taken so far at UCLA. Each day in class, you review 1-2 articles of studies or literature reviews about educational topics. Some of the ones I remember off the top of my head are if professors providing powerpoints affects students' exam performance and how gender stereotypes affect working memory capacity. Professor Givvin makes each study manageable to understand and makes sure everyone's questions are answered. Her dog Jake is super cute too. Class is 15% participation, 25% each for two midterms, and 35% final. Her tests made sure you understood the studies she went over, but there were no trick questions and she was always willing to clarify question during exams if you were confused. If you take this class, you will definitely take away lots of valuable information! It's (by far) been my favorite psych class.
Fall 2020 - Professor Givvin is such a gem. This class turned out to be one of the most interesting classes I've taken so far at UCLA. Each day in class, you review 1-2 articles of studies or literature reviews about educational topics. Some of the ones I remember off the top of my head are if professors providing powerpoints affects students' exam performance and how gender stereotypes affect working memory capacity. Professor Givvin makes each study manageable to understand and makes sure everyone's questions are answered. Her dog Jake is super cute too. Class is 15% participation, 25% each for two midterms, and 35% final. Her tests made sure you understood the studies she went over, but there were no trick questions and she was always willing to clarify question during exams if you were confused. If you take this class, you will definitely take away lots of valuable information! It's (by far) been my favorite psych class.
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Professor Santagata is a very good teacher. She's fair with her tests, testing only on big concepts that you really should know, and none of of her exams are tricky at all. Her class is as interactive as a lecture can be. She has a pretty thick accent that takes a bit to get used to, but she does make the class interesting and the readings aren't that bad. She has homework online due a day before her classes, which could be bad or good. Bad in that you have to do work, good in that it really forces you to keep up on the reading.
Professor Santagata is a very good teacher. She's fair with her tests, testing only on big concepts that you really should know, and none of of her exams are tricky at all. Her class is as interactive as a lecture can be. She has a pretty thick accent that takes a bit to get used to, but she does make the class interesting and the readings aren't that bad. She has homework online due a day before her classes, which could be bad or good. Bad in that you have to do work, good in that it really forces you to keep up on the reading.
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Stigler is a great professor! His lectures are very interesting as well as the material he teaches. You will learn a lot about the importance of education and how it is a cultural aspect of our world today. He gives pop quizzes throughout class to make sure you did your readings but they're really easy. You don't have to read everything to get a good score on the pop quizzes. Just skim through the reader and highlight the important points made by the authors/researchers. Your total grade is based on the pop quizzes and two papers. They are totally doable. I really enjoyed this class and I got an A. It's not difficult.
Stigler is a great professor! His lectures are very interesting as well as the material he teaches. You will learn a lot about the importance of education and how it is a cultural aspect of our world today. He gives pop quizzes throughout class to make sure you did your readings but they're really easy. You don't have to read everything to get a good score on the pop quizzes. Just skim through the reader and highlight the important points made by the authors/researchers. Your total grade is based on the pop quizzes and two papers. They are totally doable. I really enjoyed this class and I got an A. It's not difficult.
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