Re: Eight Year Study

["gerald bracey" <gbracey@erols.com>]

I think it is telling that Diane Ravitch in Left Back dismisses the eight
year study, Ralph Tyler's first big undertaking, in about a half page,
casting aspersions on the methodology.  I still wonder what influence it
might have had had WWII not come along.

You can find a summary on pages 29-32 of Final Exam: A Study of the
Perpetual Scrutiny of American Education, published by the Agency for
Instructional Technology in Bloomington, IN in 1995.  Still in print so far
as I know.  The first 77 pages are a history of ed reform.  Later, the book
contains this quote:

"The new attitude of educators toward education means that we have ceased
exalting the machinery and commenced to examine the product.  We have
awakened to a startled realization that in education, as in other forms of
organized activity, applied science may avail in improving even those
processes that have rested secure in the sanctions of generations of
experience."

Leonard P Ayres,
"Measuring Educational Processes Through Educations Products."
The School Review, May, 1912, pp.  300-309.

So it goes.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Bernstein" <kber@earthlink.net>
To: <arn-l@interversity.org>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:51 AM
Subject: [arn-l] Eight Year Study


> was a classic of the progressive movement in education.  Begun before
WWII, a number of schools, public and private, were allowed to recommend
students to colleges even though they did not follow the standard
preparatory methods.   The students were tracked in colleges, matched with
others who were prepared more traditionally.    They did at least as well in
college, as far as the study went.
>
> For information, go to the link I have provided below.  It is probably the
best place to start.
>
> Ken bernstein
>
> http://www.8yearstudy.org/
>
> Kenneth J. Bernstein