The methods of pedagogical psychology are the same as in the related humanitarian sciences. Nevertheless, it should be said that experiment and observation are fundamental.
Observation is a deliberate, for a specific purpose and performed in the system perception of the external manifestations of human actions with subsequent analysis and explanation of behavior.
Experiment - systematic manipulation of one or several factors and recording changes in the behavior of the object of study.
Conventionally, the methods of pedagogical psychology can bedivided into 2 groups: methods of organizing research and collecting information. The first include longitudinal study, comparative and complex methods. By the second - observation, experiment, questioning, testing, interview, clinical and standardized conversation.
Рассматривая подробнее методы педагогической psychology, such as information gathering, it should be said that testing is the questions and tasks that have been reduced to certain standards, which have a certain scale of values. Tests are used to bring individual differences to a standard. This method of collecting information requires certain requirements:
- the age norm;
- objectivity;
- validity;
- Reliability.
Tests as methods of age and pedagogical psychology are represented by several types:
- tests of achievements, diagnosing knowledge, skills and abilities;
- tests of the intellects that reveal the mental potential;
- Creativity tests that study and evaluate creative abilities;
- criteria-oriented, which reveal the possession of ZUNS, necessary and sufficient for the performance of certain assigned professional or educational tasks;
- personal - the measurement of various aspects of the personality;
- projective techniques - those that study the personality, based on the psychological interpretation of the resulting projection results;
- Scaling - a method for modeling real processes with the help of systems of numbers and coordinates.
The subject and methods of pedagogical psychologydiffer from the actual psychological only in that they study the patterns of upbringing and learning, using for this purpose the category and instrumental apparatus of other, related sciences. Two groups of methods are added, since they have a significant impact on the development of the child: this is psychological counseling and psychological correction.
In working with children, these methods are usedpedagogical psychology, as a study of the products of activity-we are talking about examining essays and tests to find out how much the material was studied, a questionnaire that reveals the motives of the teaching.
