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Texts by Thorndike and Colvin were used most frequently in educational psychology courses

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
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q2 i? Colvin's The Learning Process was mentioned by eleven institutions and Thorndike's several texts twenty-four times, more than any other texts in the field. → Hall-Quest 1918

Evidence

Hall-Quest 1918

Hall-Quest, Alfred L. (1918). Present Tendencies in Educational Psychology. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Text-usage findings from Table IV: "Colvin's The Learning Process is mentioned by eleven institutions and Thorndike's several texts twenty-four times." The author hedges that it is probably unfair to draw fixed conclusions but Thorndike and Colvin texts were used most extensively.

"Colvin's The Learning Process is mentioned by eleven institutions and Thorndike's several texts twenty-four times. It probably is unfair to draw any fixed conclusions hi this connection but it would seem that last year Thorndike and Colvin texts were used more extensively than other texts in this field."

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type claim
id thorndike-colvin-texts-most-used
title Texts by Thorndike and Colvin were used most frequently in educational psychology courses
description Texts by Thorndike and Colvin were used most frequently in educational psychology courses
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 1918
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-23
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sources 1 — hall-quest-1918

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