Experimental Studies in Psychology and Pedagogy, Volumen1Lightner Witmer Ginn & Company, 1902 |
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3d a 3d 4th a 4th 4th b 3d 8th 7th 6th Agnew School aphasia arithmetical mean Attraction I-M average number Average or percentage average percentage average results average variation chiffonier class of errors classification column test Composition Language Composition Tests coördination curves in Table differences elementary school experimental expression factors fall in spelling fourth Foxchase School Geography grade to grade grammar grades Herbartian incidental teaching investigation kinæsthetic LIGHTNER WITMER melodeon mental MOTOR INCOÖRDINATION mucilage nonsense words Northwest and Agnew number of pupils number of words oral spelling orthography papers pedagogical percentage of correctness percentages from test phonetic practical primary grades psychological Pupils Average rate of movement sciatica SENSORY INCOÖRDINATION specific spelling drill speech spelled correctly spelling errors spelling percentages spelling reform spelling result subclasses Table XV teacher term examination test to test Tests NORTHWEST SCHOOL tion Totals Medians varied words written writing
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Página 41 - I won't count this time!" Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 41 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 43 - This position itself soon became not only suggestive to the child of sleep, but sometimes necessary to sleep, even when she was laid across the nurse's lap in what seemed to be an uncomfortable position.
Página 92 - Some children are not careful enough. Was it necessary to keep me waiting so long ? Do not disappoint me so often. I have covered the mixture. He is getting better. *A feather is light. Do not deceive me. I am driving a new horse. *Is the surface of your desk rough or smooth? The children were hopping. This is certainly true. I was very grateful for my elegant present. If we have patience we will succeed. He met with a severe accident. Sometimes children are not sensible. You had no business to answer...
Página 92 - WORDS EMPLOYED IN COLUMN AND SENTENCE TESTS Column Test (Tables XX, XXI) (See pp. 60-62) Furniture, chandelier, curtain, bureau, bedstead, ceiling, cellar, entrance, building, tailor, doctor, physician, musician, beggar, plumber, superintendent, engine, conductor, brakeman, baggage, machinery, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, February, autumn, breakfast, chocolate, cabbage, dough, biscuit, celery, vegetable, scholar, geography, strait, Chicago, Mississippi, Missouri, Alleghanies, independent, confectionery,...
Página 44 - Later, he says, under sensori-motor suggestion, "The c. cit., Vol. I, pp. 84, 85. nurse in the meantime added two nursery rhymes; thus position, pats, and rhyme sounds were the suggesting stimuli. Not until the third month, however, was there any difference noticed when the same suggestions came from other persons. I myself learned during the fourth month to put her to sleep, and learned with great difficulty though pursuing the nurse's methods as nearly as possible. Here, therefore, was a sleep...
Página 41 - Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 92 - It is my purpose to learn. Did you lose your almanac? I gave it to my neighbor. *I was writing in my language book. Some children are not careful enough. Was it necessary to keep me waiting so long? Do not disappoint me so often. I have covered the mixture. He is getting better. *A feather is light. Do not deceive me. I am driving a new horse. *Is the surface of your desk rough or smooth? The children were hopping. This is certainly true. I was very grateful for my elegant present. If we have patience...
Página 43 - ... another lashes his hind quarters, and the conductor rings the bell, and the dismounted passengers shove the car, all at the same moment, his obstinacy generally yields, and he goes on his way rejoicing. If we are striving to remember a lost name or fact, we think of as many 'cues' as possible, so that by their joint action they may recall what no one of them can recall alone.
Página 70 - The amount of time devoted to the specific spelling drill bears no discoverable relation to the result, the latter remaining practically constant after the elimination of the spelling drill from the school programme. (9) It is therefore advisable, in view of the economy of time, to rely upon the incidental teaching of spelling to produce a sufficiently high average result. (10) This average result is what can be and is attained, as shown by statistical evidence, by average pupils under teachers of...