This course focuses on the theory and practice of testing and its application to psychological traits. The historical evolution of psychological testing, variable and trait identification and measurement, item design involving both culture free and culture related variables as well as the administration and analysis of psychological tests will all be covered.
This course examines the role that human beliefs, cognition, affect and values play in the constructive interpretation of events and in influencing achievements. It will cover the physical and psychological variables and processes that are involved in motivation including goal orientation, attributions, expectancy and self-efficacy as well as the theoretical formulations underpinning social cognitive that relate to learning and achievement.
This course will prepare the student for counselling roles both inside and outside the school setting. It will expose the student to the principles, forms, procedures and psychological basis of counselling practices. The various services of counselling delivery management of each service will be discussed.
This course is designed to acquaint the student with knowledge on the deviation characteristics of individuals which call for supportive treatment. The symptomatic characteristics, forms of deviations, ethology as well as general and individual support mechanisms will be covered. The course will also examine educative programme settings that can be applied to mitigate the effects of the deviations.
The course will expose the student to the concept of educational and psychological measurement, theories and principles as well as evaluation principles. It will also provide students with the skills for designing instruments for measuring such as tests, and for interpretation of results of measurement. Focus will also be placed on issues relating to the validity and reliability of instruments and tests.
This course will introduce students to the principles and processes that explain the thinking and learning behaviour of humans and how people change as they grow and develop. It will also cover issues related to the design of learning tasks, organizing the learning environment, executing learning activities and managing the learning environment. The physiological, psychological and environmental variables that influence learning behaviour as well as issues on the assessment of learning will be discussed
This course will introduce students to the interrelationships between environment and human behaviour. It will expose them to the theoretical models that explain conditions under which humans will behave in a decent and creative manner. It explores the characteristics of restorative environments, effects of environmental stress on human performance, human information processing, and promotion of durable conservation behaviour and property resource management. The key processes involved including environmental attention, cognitive map, preferred environments, environmental stress and coping, citizen participation and conservation behaviour will be covered.
This course examines the major theories and explanations of learning among both humans and animals. It introduces the student to the main processes that determine learning behaviour, variations in learning outcomes, internal and external determinant of learning and the factors that stimulate or impede learning across species. Studies on learning will be highlighted to give meaning to the issues raised.
This course introduces the student to both descriptive and inferential statistics. Included in this course are measures of central tendency, normal distribution, correlations and regression, t-tests, ANOVA and chi-square. The rationale for using these measures will be considered.
This course will introduce students to the interrelationships between environment and human behaviour. It will expose them to the theoretical models that explain conditions under which humans will behave in decent and creative manner. It explores issues such as the characteristics of restorative environments, effects of environmental stress on human performance, human information processing, and promotion of durable conservation behaviour and property resource management. The key processes involved including environmental attention, cognitive maps, preferred environments, environmental stress and coping, citizen participation and conservation behaviour will be covered.
