Educational Psychology (McGraw-Hill's College Review Books)

 (12 customer reviews)

This book is full of a lot of wonderful information. The best part I would have to say is the Praxis quizzes that are included in the book. I would recommend this to anyone who has not taken the praxis and would like to really understand how and why students think and do the things they do.

This is a college text that was available for Kindle PC. I love the fact that I do not have to have an actual text book.

This book was rather ponderous, with little attempt made to make it readable. That's not the worst of it, though; that's to be expected in a psych textbook. The worst of it is, there was an unforgivable amount of sloppy editing in this book; most of it was in the first half of the book, with only one or two errors slipping through after chapter 8, but that still leaves me thoroughly unimpressed, although the book IS less sloppy than the Adolescent Psych textbook by the same author.

In general, the errors are of the typo or proofreading variety, not relevant to the subject matter, although the author does still have a tendency to confuse correlation with causation in spite of his clear disclaimers to the contrary.

Some examples of the errors that I'm speaking of:
1) At the end of chapter 2, on page 68, in the "reach your learning goals" section, under the "Developmental Issues" subheading, he speaks of the conflict between "nature and nature", rather than...Read more