The Psychology of the Common Branches (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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In order to supervise the child's learning most effectively, it is necessary to know what mental changes take place in the different forms of learning which he undertakes. Merely to know the result which is aimed at is not sufficient important as this is. One can learn in a short time to distinguish between good and poor writing, between an adequate and an inadequate understanding of history or geography, or between different degrees of proficiency in the pursuit of a science. A clerk can correct examination papers in arithmetic or spelling. These forms of discrimina tion make up the art of the examiner. When carried to a high degree of perfectidii in the development of standard tests of attainment, this art becomes more difficult, and it becomes possible to use the results in directing the pupil's efforts. But in the main the art of the teacher is the far more delicate one of following the changes which take place in the mind of the pupil, and of bringing to bear his influence upon them to produce the highest degree of improvement with the least expenditure of effort. In order to understand the process which is going on in the child's mind when he learns the various branches, it is necessary to have a conception of the typical learning processes which are involved in these branches.

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