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Page 13 - Some Results and Inferences Derived from the Use of the Army Tests at the University of Minnesota.
Page 33 - ... criterion is teaching success after graduation. It is the purpose here to discuss briefly three methods for the determination of this criterion through the use of tools and materials easily available in any typical situation. The state must know — and the efficient state normal-school administrator must find out for the state — what value as teachers the groups found in its teacher-training institutions have. In addition to this every state normal-school administrator must know what value...
Page 18 - Seven functions used: 1. Teaching success, as judged by supervisory officers during the first semester under contract after graduation. 2. Intelligence, as measured by tests for general intelligence such as the Army Alpha and Thorndike's Examination for High School Graduates.
Page 13 - Yoakum, CS, and Yerkes, RM Army mental tests. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920. 357. Army Alpha Tests, "Scrambled
Page 9 - Such a course of instruction will obviously consist of the following parts: 1. A careful review of the branches of knowledge required to be taught in our common schools; it being, of course, the first requisite of a teacher that he should himself know well that which he is to aid others in learning.
Page 57 - The Case Method for the Study of Teaching," School and Society, 15: 121-130, February 4, 1922.
Page 5 - Locke's) that the school which has good teachers needs little else and that the school which is without good teachers will be little the better for anything else.
Page 9 - In the last place, it is to be observed, that in aid of all the instruction and exercises within the limits of the Normal school properly so called, there is to be established a common or district school as a school of practice, in which, under the direction of the principal of the school, the young teacher may have the benefit of actual exercise in the business of instruction.
Page 69 - They should have an equal part in faculty meetings, in service upon committees, and an equal part in establishing the policies of the institution. While training teachers should be selected primarily upon the basis of their craftsmanship, it is nevertheless necessary, if the student...
Page 13 - ... percent may be compared with physicians and dentists, and the remainder have literal ratings similar to those of bookkeepers, clerks, and skilled workmen.