THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT TRAINING METHODS IN SCHOOL SITUATIONS.
Abstract
This Staff Memorandum reviews the results of objective investigations of the effectiveness of different training methods in school situations. This review is restricted, with few exceptions, to studies using high school students, college students or military personnel in situations where the instructional air is to inform Ss of facts or principles in some subject matter. The review is primarily of the literature on training methods since 1940. The principal conclusions are: (1) Though some lessons are learned better under one overall method of presentation than another (e.g. some lessons are best presented by film, others by lecture, etc.) over variegated subject matter there is no clear evidence of superiority of one method of presentation. (2) Effective instruction seems to depend largely on factors that are internal to a lesson rather than being dependent on method of presentation. Such factors as repetition of points within a lesson, telling students specifically what they are to learn, summaries of the principal points, etc, are apt to produce effect instruction. Recommendations for research in classroom learning made to fill in the principal gaps in our knowledge include research on the conduct of practical exercise and laboratory instruction, and study of the effect of conceptual and informational type instruction on later performance in practical situations. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1955
- Accession Number
- AD0480457
Entities
People
- Robert S. Beecroft
Organizations
- George Washington University