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Introduction to the scientific study of education

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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This textbook presents a systematic, scientific approach to studying educational problems for beginning teachers. It surveys historical and comparative methods, the social and public character of schooling, compulsory attendance, fiscal organization, school administration and supervision, curriculum and classroom methods, and measurement of pupil progress, illustrated by empirical studies, tables, and diagrams. Chapters combine conceptual discussion with practical exercises, observation guides, and references to facilitate classroom application. The central aim is to train educators to analyze policy, organization, and instruction with empirical evidence and administrative awareness to improve efficiency, equity, and professional practice in schools.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1.  Average number of high-school units in the approved schools of the various states of the North Central Association 6
2A. Pauses made in silent reading 8
2B. Pauses made in oral reading 9
3.  Diagram showing the organization of German schools and American schools 18
4.  Proportion of public money spent for public schools and other items 50
5.  Distribution in the various grades of each thousand dollars expended for instruction 59
6.  Floor plan of a typical school building of the old style 79
7.  Floor plan of a well-arranged one-teacher rural school of minimum cost 80
8.  An old and a new rural school 81
9A. Ground plan of Alabama School 83
9B. Exterior of Alabama School 83
10A. Ground plan of Empire School 84
10B. Exterior of Empire School 84
11.  Record of nonpromotions and failures in Cleveland, 1914 103
12.  Enrollment in private vocational schools and in public high schools of Chicago 133
13.  Individual differences in the number of lines read in a minute by pupils in the fifth grades of two schools 181
14.  Average quality and average speed of handwriting of pupils of the four upper grades in ten schools 218
15.  Speed and quality of handwriting 223
16.  Distribution of grades in various Harvard classes 263