Bureau of school research as a central clearing-house for educational data¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 theoretical), q1 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

A proposed central school department in charge of a director who is an expert in child, educational and clinical psychology with experimental pedagogy and teaching experience. The article argues investigation results are liable to run to sand unless they are "properly unified, correlated and brought to a focus", and that the bureau should gather, compile, compare, correlate, interpret and turn to practical use data from five sources: medico-dental examination records, sociological case data, pedagogical records, controlled educational experiments, and psycho-clinical records.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

A director who is an expert in child, educational and clinical psychology, familiar with experimental pedagogy, with practical teaching experience and some knowledge of medical inspection work

Constraints¶

The author frames the plan as aspirational for school systems; he notes that where a comprehensive bureau is not feasible, a clinical laboratory alone should claim first attention

Target Learners¶

public-school pupils, particularly exceptional, retarded and delinquent children

Learning Goals¶

scientific diagnosis and classification of pupils' health, development and pedagogical status

Claims¶

Bureaus for educational research within school systems provide a continuous survey whose influence is more salutary and lasting than a transient external survey [+W]

Five functions of the school psycho-clinical laboratory

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

J. K. W. Wallin. (1911). The New Clinical Psychology and the Psycho-Clinicist. Part II. The Psychological Clinic and the Public Schools. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org/journal/edu

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`title`	`Bureau of school research as a central clearing-house for educational data`
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