Normal school education and efficiency in teaching by Meriam Junius Lathrop 1872-

Author:Meriam, Junius Lathrop, 1872- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Teachers colleges, Teaching, Educational psychology
Publisher: [New York?] Printed for the author
Published: 1905-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

TEACHING EFFICIENCY AND SCHOLARSHIP

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It may not be surprising to note that in the most favorable case—Teaching- and " Professional " in school E—teaching ability and ability in psychology as taught there are identical to the extent shown by a coefficient of .56; but it is certainly surprising that in the history of education, as given in school H, there is a negative correlation to the extent of .224; and perhaps even more surprising that the MODE including about half the number of all the cases lies between no correlation at all and .337. The significance of these low correlations must be considered later.

We should note also another general aspect of these correlations. Column X in the tabular view gives the averages of the correlations for the various subjects through the different schools (I and J have no correlation with teaching) . It is obvious that these amounts are greatly reduced by reason, of the low correlations of the two schools, C and H, and somewhat modified by the fluctuations in school F. School C is one of the five State Normal Schools (A, B, C, D, E), but school H is a city training school. It may be well to note the changes in the average correlations when schools H and F are omitted from consideration, for the following reasons:

School H is not of exactly the same class as the others. I need not enter into a careful differentiation between state Normal Schools and city training schools. No estim.ate of their relative worth is here implied, but even a slight consideration will show that the students are different—one class coming from the state at large, the other from a much more limited area. Their previous training and experience probably makes the age of the former class higher than the latter, and age at this period is an important factor. That the one school is not of the same class as the other is further seen in that the character of the work of the city training school is usually more closely related to the high school

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