The Inductive Determination of Educational Method; Or, the Standarization and Application of Efficiency Tests to Any of the Numerous Factors of (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Inductive Determination of Educational Method OUTLINE I. Introduction. II. The Scientific Educational Society. III. The University Seminar in Educational Research. 1. General conditions of membership. 2. Types of specialists needed. 3. Meetings for round-table discussion. 4. Division of labor. 5. Field of investigation. IV. The Work of Scientific Experimentation in Educational Method. V. Outline of Considerations and Suggestions for Inductive Determination of Educational Method and for Effective use of Conclusions. 1. Formulation of problem for experi mentation. 2. Selection of laboratory for experi mentation. 3. Choice of conductor of experiment. 4. Development of procedure for experi ment. 5. Conducting of experiment. 6. Review of experiment and preliminary report. 7. Formal report and publication. VI. Development of Outline. (In which sections designated a, b, and c correspond in each case to the two or three subdivisions under each of the seven subordinate headings in outline V above.)I. Intboduction Preliminary to a consideration of the question of procedure in the inductive determination of educational method, it may be well, for reasons which are practical rather than theoretical, to consider the agencies through which educational scientists may, hy combining their efforts, best attain to useful scientific achievement. II. The Scientific Educational Society Schleiermacher thinks that in the very need of science there is need of the scientific society. Whether or not this be true of science in general, it is obviously true of the need which is at once suggested by any constructive efforts to develop a science of education on an inductive basis. Any real achievement in the domain of scientific ...