University of Wisconsin. The Principles of Effective Debating. (Bulletin, Serial No. 487. General Series, No. 321.) Watkins, Dwight Everett. Group Systems in Interscholastic Debating. Education, 34: 416-20, March, 1914. PREPARATION OF TEACHERS. Avery, Elizabeth H. The Training of the English Teacher-One Experience. English Journal, 2: 322, May, 1913. Bagley, W. C. On Training High-School Teachers. In National Education Association. Proceedings, 1912. p. 686. Baker, Franklin T. The Teacher of English. English Journal, 2:335–43, June, 1913. Balliett, T. M. The Influence of Present Methods of Graduate Instruction on the Teaching in Secondary Schools. School Review, April, 1908. Brown, John F. The Training of Teachers for Secondary Schools. New York, 1911. Clapp, J. M. Summer Work in Voice Training for Teachers of English. English Journal, 4: 404-6, June, 1915. Dunbar, A. M. The Training of a Teacher of English. October, 1908. Education, 29:97, Gaw, Allison. The Collegiate Training of the Teacher of High-School English. English Journal, 5: 320-31, May, 1916. Holmes, Samuel Foss. The College Equipment for the English Teacher in Subjects other than English. New England Association of Teachers of English. Leaflet, Vol. XIV, No. 119, June, 1914. Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Report on the Preparation of Teachers of English. Bulletin, February 15, 1915. Linehan, William F. Courses in Education as a Preparation for English Teaching. New England Association of Teachers of English. Leaflet, Vol. XIV, No. 120, October, 1914. National Council of Teachers of English. Committee. Preparation of High- New England Association of Teachers of English. The Training of English Teachers. Report of the Committee. Education, 34: 473-90, April, 1914. Yocum, A. Duncan. The Compelling of Efficiency Through Teacher Training. School and Society, 1: 469-77, April 3, 1915. STANDARDS AND MEASUREMENTS. Abbott, Allan. Scientific Standards in English Teaching. Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1915. English Journal, A preliminary report of a committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. Presents remarkably comprehensive plan for making available from year to year all the work done in the scientific study of English teaching. Ayres, L. P. A Scale for Measuring Ability in Spelling. Russell Sage Foundation. Best Spelling Scale. Bagley, W. C. The Need of Standards for Measuring Progress and Results. In National Education Association. Proceedings, 1912. p. 634. Reviews the progress made and sounds a warning lest the intangible outcomes of education shall be overlooked. Ballou, Frank W. Scales for the Measurement of Composition. The HarvardNewton Bulletins, No. 2, September, 1914. A series of compositions from eighth-grade children representing different degrees of excellence in each of the principal forms of discourse. Bidwell, Alice. The Young Teacher and Course Failures. Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Bulletin, Vol. VII, No. 7, April 15, 1915. Colvin, Stephen S. Marks and the Marking System as an Incentive. Education, 32: 560-72, May, 1912. Courtis, S. A. Educational Diagnosis. Educational Administration and Supervision, February, 1915. Objective Standards. School and Society, March 27, 1915. Standards in Rates of Reading. In National Society for the Study of Education. Fourteenth Yearbook, Part I, 1915. p. 44-45. Standard Tests in English. Elementary-School Teacher, Vol. 14, No. 8, April, 1914. Includes a few graphs of the results of the use of the author's "standard tests" in composition. Davis, William R. A Survey of the Teaching of Composition in the Northwest. English Journal, 4: 639-46, December, 1915. Dearborn, W. F. The Misuse of Standard Tests in Education. Society, April 1, 1916. School and School and University Grades. Madison, 1910. 59 p. tables. 12°. (University of Wisconsin. Bulletin, No. 368. High School Series, No. 9.) Based on a study of grades in elementary and high schools and university. Faust, Wirt G. Standards of Descriptive Theme-Writing for Seniors in the High School. English Journal, 5: 257-71, April, 1916. Gerrish, Carolyn M. The work of the Committee on Standards in English. Education, 36: 95-101, October, 1915. Hillegas, Milo B. A Scale for the Measurement of Quality in English Composition by Young People. Teachers College Record, Vol. 13, No. 4, September, 1912. Based upon the theory that differences equally often noticed are equal. Humphries, Florence Y. Effort vs. Accomplishment. English Journal, 3:60311, December, 1914. Report of an experiment in marking. The author believes it wrong to deceive pupils into thinking that their work is better than it is. Inglis, A. Variability of Judgments in Grading. Educational Administration and Supervision, January, 1914. Johnson, Franklin W. The Hillegas-Thorndike Scale for Measurement of Quality in English Composition by Young People. School Review, 21:39–49, January, 1913. The Wide variation in marking was present even with the use of the scale. author thinks two scales necessary, one for form and one for content. Judd, C. H. Measuring the Work of the Public Schools. Cleveland Educational Survey, 1916. Kayfetz, Isidore. A Critical Study of the Hillegas Composition Scale. Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. XXI, No. 4. December, 1914. Theoretical in treatment but useful in defining the problem and showing what has been done. Kelly, F. J. The Kansas Silent-Reading Tests. No. 3. Studies by the Bureau of Educational Measurements and Standards. Emporia, Kansas State Normal School. The Kansas Silent-Reading Tests. Journal of Educational Psychology, 7:63-80, February, 1916. Teachers' Marks. Their Variability and Standardization. New York, 1914. (Columbia University, Teachers College. Contributions to Education, No. 66, 1914.) A careful scientific study in which work so far done is summarized and tested. The Hillegas scale is shown to be difficult to use with advantage. Long, Percy W. Grades that Explain Themselves. English Journal, 2:488-93, October, 1913. Pittenger, E. F. Scientific Studies of the Marking System. American Schoolmaster, Vol. VIII, No. 4, April, 1915. Reynolds, George Fullmer. For Minimum Standards in English. English Journal, 4: 349-56, June, 1915. Routh, James. A Method of Grading English Composition. English Journal, 5:341-45, May, 1916. Rugg, H. A. Teachers' Marks and Marking Systems. Educational Administration and Supervision, February, 1915. Excellent bibliography. Starch, D. Can Variability of Marks be Reduced? School and Society, August 17, 1915. Educational Measurements. New York, Macmillan, 1916. and Elliott, Edward C. Reliability in the Grading of High-School Work in English. School Review, 20: 7, September, 1912. Thomas, C. S. The Hillegas Scale. New England Association of Teachers of English. Leaflet, No. 104, January, 1913. Thorndike, Edward L. A Scale for Merit in English Writing. Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 7, September, 1911. A preliminary account of the scale, with a plea for criticism. Notes on the Significance and Use of the Hillegas Scale for Measuring the Quality of English Composition. English Journal, 2:551-61, November, 1913. An account of the attempt to direct a body of teachers at a meeting of the Illinois association in the use of the scale. ECONOMY OF TIME. Angell, J. R. The Duplication of School Work by the College. School Review, 21: 1-10, January, 1913. Wholly needless waste could be avoided by intelligent collaboration of school and college teachers. Baker, James H. Economy of Time in Education. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1913. (U. S. Bureau of Education. Bulletin, 1913, No. 38.) A report to the National Council of Education. The committee think time can be saved by selecting the essentials of subject matter and by using methods appropriate to the nature of what is being taught. Dewey, John. Shortening the Years of Elementary Schooling. School Review, 11:17, January, 1903. Would secure a better type of work by differentiating clearly between elementary and secondary education; thinks secondary education should begin with the seventh grade. Journal of Education, July, 1914. Hosic, James F. Economy in Education. Considers essentials in education in respect to aim, material, and method; thinks the schools lay too much emphasis upon the mere symbol. Rounds, C. R. The Waste of Unlearning. English Journal, 1:214, April, 1912. MISCELLANEOUS. Baker, F. T. High-School Reading: Compulsory and Voluntary. English Black, Mary E. A Consideration of High-School English in North Dakota. Journal, 4:1-8, January, 1915. University of North Dakota. Bulletin No. 2, May, 1912. Brown, Stanley. Pictures in the High School. Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Bulletin, Vol. VII, No. 2, November 1, 1914. Browne, George H. Imagination, Concentration, and the Moving Picture. New England Association of Teachers of English. Leaflet, Vol. XV, No. 123, January, 1915. Cohen, Helen Louise. The Foreigner in Our Schools: Some Aspects of the Problem in New York. English Journal, 2: 618-29, December, 1913. Gallagher, Oscar C. The Teaching of English in Commercial Courses. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914. (English Problems, No. 6, February, 1914.) Gaston, Charles R. Report of Committee on Method of Reading Books Quickly and Effectively. New York City Association of Teachers of English. Bulletin No. XVI, May, 1915. Lyons, Marion C. My Experience with Business English. English Journal, 2:312-17, May, 1913. Perry, Frances M. Dictionaries in the Schoolroom. English Journal, 4: 660-63, December, 1915. Scott, Fred Newton. uary, 1914. The Undefended Gate. English Journal, 3:1-14, Jan Ward, Cornelia Carhart. Teaching with Pictures. Boston, University Print, 1916. Webster, Edward Harlan. Preparation in English for Business. English Journal, 2: 613-17, December, 1913. 75080°-17-12 |