Making an Impact: Facilitating Student Success with Lessons from Instructional Communication and Educational Psychology

Flourish as an instructor by learning about what behaviors lead to student success!

Making an Impact: Facilitating Student Success with Lessons from Instructional Communication and Educational Psychology helps readers become better instructors by changing the way they think about their interactions with students.

Written from the perspective of improving instruction, Making an Impact covers topics including: students’ self-control, achievement motivation, teacher misbehaviors, retention and transfer, cognitive load, clarity, self-determination, teacher charisma, and transformational leadership in the classroom.

Making an Impact is an entertaining and practical text that covers extensive literature and presents complex topics in lessons that are easy to understand and enjoyable to read.

Making an Impact: Facilitating Student Success with Lessons from Instructional Communication and Educational Psychology:

• Integrates some of the most important empirical research to help readers understand the latest trends in instructional communication and educational psychology.
• Covers topics focused on three major themes related to student success including students’ capacity, opportunity, and motivation to do well in class.
• Provides concrete advice on how readers can employ specific behaviors to improve their instruction.