Educational Psych ...

[cazz0413]

Taking the test in 1 week any feedback? ???

[verity-comm-english]

Very analytical. You have to know your stuff and then be able to translate it to answer the question. I passed mine a month or two ago with a 59, but I saw the first question and decided I was toast. I had to mark it and move on, and it did get better.

[deering]

Took it today and passed with a 59. I found the test to be very difficult and was a little surprised because on another website it was scored a 2 on difficulty with 5 being the hardest. I studied for about 5 hours and had the theories memorized but a lot of the questions were scenarios and you had to apply the theory to the example. Not as easy as one would might think. I am glad it is behind me and I passed but recommend knowing Erikson, Piaget and especially
Skinner also know the different types of memory and effective teaching methods.

[LadyNole10]

I'm studying for it now to take two weeks from now but I have taken HGD and unfortunately missed it by one point but I also took a Psych class while in undergrad. It would definitely help if you have had taken both of these courses but that is my advice from not taking the test yet.

[cazz0413]

Did you pass? how was it? taking it WEd.

[Sm13hoga]

The test is next week and I have no idea where to start studying! Any tips? Which websites (besides this one lol) and books will help me the most?

[P00057870]

If you are a paying member of this site, you will not only have access to the study cards but also to the Specific Exam Forum - which is where all of this type of information is contained. Very specific suggestions from those who have gone before.

[Aysu]

I'm taking the exam this next monday. Not a paying member of the site but you all seem to be the only active forum about that talks about the CLEP!
Right now my plan of attack is to copy tricky questions from the Peterson exam (like notecards) and then define the concepts/people/ect that are used in the answers. I also have a list from an older forum post I'm going to go through to fill in the gaps.
Does anyone have a recommended Peterson score for this exam? Or anything else you'd like to add that was really tricky or took you off guard?

[kim_chi]

I took it today and passed with a 55. It was a bit hard but I have not had psychology classes in the past. there was more on the brain and nuerons than I thought there would be so make sure you pay attention to that. Also alot on different types of psychology. know what cognitive, humanism, behaviorism, biological, etc. is and who is responsible for them. If you have had psych before it will be easy I'm sure. Also memorize piaget's theory as well as the others out there. Good luck.

[Aysu]

Passed with a 71! This was a tricky exam. Having a background in psych, child, and education classes definitely helped. I would take other exams first. Lots of applied questions and "Which is of these is least right"

Spend extra time on:
Piaget
Vgotsky
TONS on behavioral and memory
Reinforcement
Teaching strategies

Also some minor questions on: wait time (normal versus what it should be), mean/medium/mode, extinction, Individuals with Disabilities, advanced organizers, proximal zones, Kohlberg, intelligences, Maslow, Statistics (z-scores, standard, U-curve)

I was surprised to have two questions on James E. Marcia's identity statuses (I specifically got having to identify from an ex. foreclosure and identity diffusion)

Good luck to anyone taking it next!