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Page 39 - Not perhaps now, and not perhaps in fifty years from now; but if a thing exists, it exists in some amount ; and if it exists in some amount, it can be measured.
Page 1 - An investigation of the uses of arithmetic in the out-of-school life of first-grade children," Elementary School Journal, 24:621-26, April, 1924.
Page 6 - The experience of the present writer in examining many correlation tables has led him to regard correlation as "negligible" or "indifferent" when r is less than .15 to .20; as being "present but low" when r ranges from .15 or .20 to .35 or .40; as being "markedly present
Page 56 - Confidential recommendations as a basis for selecting teachers," Journal of Educational Research, 14: 325-335, December, 1926.
Page 18 - The Bureau is a department of the College of Education. Its immediate direction is vested in a Director, who is also an instructor in the College of Education. Under his supervision research is carried on by other members of the Bureau staff and also by graduates who are working on theses.
Page 32 - Summary of Investigations Relating to Reading. Supplementary Educational Monographs, No. 28. Chicago: Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1925, pp.
Page 24 - If the answers to such questions are needed as a means of dealing with thought questions, such activities are a phase of educational research. The ultimate purpose of all educational research is the discovery of procedures, rules, and principles relating to the various aspects of education. Or to express it in a somewhat different way, the function of educational research is to determine what we should do or attempt to do in educating children and adults.
Page 57 - Methods of Reporting the College Teacher's Load and Administrative Efficiency," Educational Administration and Supervision, 11 : 167-87, March, 1925.