Inductive Versus Deductive Methods of Teaching: An Experimental Research |
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Page 38 - All we can do is to find ways of simulating what might have happened, and one of the most important questions that can be asked of any particular method of evaluating programme effects is, how well does it cope with the problem of the counterfactual?
Page 138 - The main problems were two in number. In the first place, an attempt was made to discover which of the two methods gave the better results when the children were tested on precisely what they had been taught or had learned. In the second place, an endeavor was made to find out which of the two methods gave the better results when the children were tested on new material.
Page 138 - In five different schools in different parts of London, attended by children varying in social class, experiments have been made to test the relative values of inductive and deductive methods of teaching as applied to geometrical definition. Both girls and boys, of ages ranging from eight to fifteen years, were set to do the work. The main problems were two in number. In the first place, an attempt was made to discover which of the two methods gave the better results when the children were tested...
Page 140 - ... pedagogical purpose, the new material, though it should not be identical, ought to be analogous to that which has been dealt with in the school curriculum. Questions on new analogous material are probably the best questions of all (if the same set of questions be required to serve a double purpose), for...