Teacher Opinion on Ability Grouping
| Autor: | Verna L. Wadleigh, Edward A. Lincoln |
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| Rok vydání: | 1930 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Educational Research. 21:277-282 |
| ISSN: | 1940-0675 0022-0671 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00220671.1930.10880041 |
| Popis: | Ability grouping has been practiced in the schools of Reading, Massa chusetts, for several years, and this form of organization is now used in Grades I to IX. The grouping is done very carefully by the use of group achievement and intelligence examinations supplemented by school marks, teacher judgments, health records, personality characteristics, and other pertinent facts. The present paper reports the results of a questionnaire sent to the teachers of the junior high school and the intermediate school in an attempt to find out in what repute the plan was held by the teachers after a three-year trial. The authors are well aware of the difficulties and dangers involved in the use of the questionnaire, and realize the necessity of suspending judgment as to the general value of ability grouping until objective experimental evidence can be obtained regarding its advantages and disadvantages. The opinion of interested and com petent observers, however, is valuable and important, so the making and reporting of this study seems justified. The questionnaire was designed to gather information on several points. It was desired to discover how well the plan was realizing the general objectives for which it was set up, and also to get some light on the validity of some of the commonly mentioned objections to grouping. Incidentally, the opportunity was taken to discover how many pupils were, in the judgment of the teachers, misplaced in their groups, (Ques tion 1.), and to find out what was being done to foster social development (Question 10.), and leadership (Question 11.). The questionnaire is reproduced below. The teachers were urged to state their opinions frankly, and to describe conditions as they actually existed and not as they were theoretically supposed to exist. |
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