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The Programmed Text As An Aid To Teaching Spelling In Junior High School, Gordon Howard Nicholls
The Programmed Text As An Aid To Teaching Spelling In Junior High School, Gordon Howard Nicholls
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Organized education, historically, has been slow to commit itself to any sort of intensive examination of how learning can be both analyzed and substantially improved. But today Komoski (1960) tells us that we are looking beyond the traditional approaches to teaching. If a newly developed method is shown to be more effective than the techniques which have traditionally been employed, it is carefully considered for incorporation into the current education program.
Programmed instruction is just such an example of a recently developed teaching method which claims it will contribute much to education. It dates back to Pressey's report (1926) of …