Education Research and Statistics

Contents: Preface. 1. Research study in education. 2. Research and field of investigation. 3. The role of judgement in objective measurement. 4. Measurement of intelligence and achievement. 5. Scientific development upon problems of education. 6. Mental traits of men of science. 7. The historical method. 8. Interpretation. 9. Note-taking and documentation. 10. Technique of presentation of report. 11. Data processing in statistics. 12. Hypothesis testing. Index.

It is only within modern times that research activity has attained a social importance which is not merely incidental t the older pursuits, religion, philosophy, education, politics, war and commerce. Its present dignified position can be traced to the recent epochal advance in the physical and biological sciences. It is clearly a phenomenon of growth. It physics should ever reach such a stage that all a student’s time would, in the judgment of teachers, need to be consumed in catching up to what the past had bequeathed, then physical research and experimentation in its truest meaning would languish.