Recommended list of ten psychology textbooks with Elementary and Advanced requirements

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 design), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

To secure a uniform basis for the examinations, the committee recommends ten texts, including Betts, Angell, Kirkpatrick, James, Seashore, Judd, Dewey, Titchener, Calkins, and Thorndike, each annotated (e.g., Seashore's is "A manual of experiments not requiring any laboratory"). The article states "In the Elementary examination, three of these are required; in the Advanced, six." Special books are Kirkpatrick, Seashore, and Dewey; the others are general introductions. A supplementary reference list for public libraries is also given.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Candidates select two general and one special text for the Elementary examination, four general and two special for the Advanced

Constraints

• The state examination will be based specifically upon the recommended books only until January 1, 1915, with a revision published January 1, 1914

Target Learners

• Teachers seeking Elementary or Advanced psychology certification in Iowa

Learning Goals

• Preparation for uniform state psychology examinations

Claims

• The Advanced examination is calibrated at six semester hours, about three hundred hours of work, and about three thousand pages of reading [+W]
• The Elementary examination represents three semester hours, half the Advanced requirement [+W]

Related Designs

• Twelve-topic grouping organizing the psychology course of study

Examples

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Key Sources

• A committee of five representing the Association of Teachers of Psychology in Iowa. (1911). Preparation for Examinations in Psychology. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/edu

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title	Recommended list of ten psychology textbooks with Elementary and Advanced requirements
description	To secure a uniform basis for the examinations, the committee recommends ten texts, including Betts, Angell, Kirkpatrick, James, Seashore, Judd, Dewey, Titchener, Calkins, and Thorndike, each annotated (e.g., Seashore...
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