Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Psychology and educational psychology: an introduction -- Part II. Learner abilities and characteristics -- Part III. Teacher characteristics and classroom interactions -- Part IV. Learning cognitive abilities and processes -- Part V. Learning: affective characteristics and psychomotor abilities -- Part VI. Learning: motivation, retention, and transfer -- Part VII. Recent innovations in teaching-learning -- Part VIII. Measurement and evaluation.

The critical necessity for both broad and deep scholarship for the specialist was never as urgent nor as difficult to attain as it is today. Two major circumstances that support the above statement are (1) the vast array of knowledge at hand and (2) the diverse and scattered sources of the published reports by the increasing number of scholars within a special field.