| Show Controlled Experimentation Great Need in Move for Better Teaching Methods By FLOYD W W. REEVES University of Kentucky Greater use of controlled experimentation has been made by colleges of education in universities than by any other type of institution It is surprising that teachers colleges and normal schools institutions having as their major function the improvement of teaching in elementary and high schools should have done so o little in the way of discovering methods whereby the instruction of their own students might be improved The limited extent to which controlled experimentation has ba been carried on leads to the suggestion that investigation of this type needs to tobe tobe tobe be encouraged Colleges universities and training teacher institutions would do well to test teet out in an objective manner the results obtained from the use of different teaching methods in order that the better methods may be discovered and utilized Christian college at Columbia Mo may be mentioned as one of the junior colleges which have developed d an elaborate program for the improvEment improvement improvement im im- provement of instruction Tim This includes the supervision of classroom teaching forums for the discussion of instructional problems and controlled con trolled experimentation in the field of teaching method |
