The best planned hygiene instruction occurred in normal schools devoting considerable time to the sciences¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Schools with four-year high-school entrance requirements but little or no science work did no better in hygiene; the best planned hygiene instruction occurred in schools devoting considerable time to the sciences. → Arthur Heche 1909

Evidence¶

Arthur Heche 1909¶

Arthur Heche. (1909). A Report on the Teaching and Practice of Hygiene in the Public Normal Schools of the United States. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jeducreducpsyc

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Cross-school comparison from the questionnaire returns. Among city and state normals requiring four years of high school but giving little or no science work, the report finds "the best hygiene work does not appear to be done in these schools."

"That the best planned hygiene instruction occurs in the schools devoting considerable time to the sciences."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Time and Continuity — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

Related Claims¶

• Normal schools gave comparatively little attention to sex hygiene and rarely used nature study and biology as an approach to it — related
• One-half of surveyed normal schools offered no hygiene instruction beyond physiology and incidental treatment in other courses — related
• About two-thirds of responding normal schools reported conditions injurious to student health, chiefly poor ventilation, lighting, boarding, and overpressure of work — related
• Biology courses alone are judged inadequate for sex instruction and should be supplemented by more personal and direct means such as special lectures. — related
• Separate personal and school hygiene courses were recently introduced and remained few, short, and slowly adopted — related