POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

Sta. Mesa, Manila

Master of Educational Management
THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING

SCHEDULE OF REPORTS
Date of
Week Reporters Report Topics
Reporting
August 22,  Galo, Erika Mae  Definitions of learning
2021  Learning result in a behavioral change
Week 2  Different kinds of learning
 Approaches to the study of learning

 Bautista, Arlett  Early notions of learning

 Voluntarism
 Structuralism
 Functionalism
 Behaviorism

Week 3  Balbedina, Kristelle  Beginning of modern psychology

Louise  Rene Rescartes
 Thomas Hobbes
 John Locke
 George Berkeley
 Immanuel Kant
 John Stuart Mill

 Salomon, Aries  Edward Lee Thorndike Major

Theoretical Concepts
 Law of Readiness
 Law of Exercise
 Law of Effect
 Multiple Response
 Set or Attitude
Week 4
 Banagodos, Maril  Prepotency of elements
Ann  Response by analogy
 Associative Shifting
 Belongingness
 Spread of Effect
 Thorndike’s Contributions to
Education

Week 5  Guiloreza, Julie  Burrhus Frederic Skinner Major

Theoretical Concepts
 Respondent and Operant
Behavior
 Operant Conditioning Principles
  Shaping
 Extinction
 Spontaneous Recovery
 Positive and Negative Reinforcers

 Nirenzo, Cheska  Punishment

Jane  Alternatives to Punishment
 Verbal Behavior
 Skinner’s Contributions to Education
 Personalized Systems of
Instruction (PSI)
 Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
 On-Line Learning

 Catajan, Rhocel 
Week 6  Frilles-Atienza,
Maryvhic
August 29, Week 7  Sitjar, Arlene 
2021  Tiamzon, Maria 
Week 9
Heles
 Iglesias, Kathreen 
Week 10
Allych
 Maghilum, Joselyn 
Week 11
 De Paz, Lora May
Week 12  Bonto, Nilo Jr. 
September 5,  Vargas, Shiene 
Week 13
2021 Marlyn
 Animosa, Ruzzel 
Week 14
Joseph
 Pediongco, Grace
September  Yu, David Euclid 
12, 2021 Isaac
Week 15
 Dacanay, Kenneth
Anne
Week 16  Abaja, Kenneth  Robert C. Bolles Major Theoretical
Concepts
 Expectancies
 Inmate Predispositions
 Motivation Restricts Response
Flexibility
 The Niche Argument
 Biological Boundaries of Learning

 Musni, Dyanarha  Instrumental Conditioning

 Operant Conditioning
 Autoshaping
 Clinical Conditioning
 Biological Conditioning
 Bolles’s Contributions to Education
  Maña, Camille  Current Trends in Learning Theory
Week 17  Some Unanswered Questions about
Learning