The Green Forest tribune., 1910-02-04

interval between learning and recall be most ad- vantageousy filed then the arrangement or .ne program of studies be worked out on psyeholog- ical basis and not on the less haphazard basis which seems to be the present plan.
 Among other problems in this held or appnea psy- choogv which the department has undertaken or pro- poses to carry the future may be mentioned the following:
 l. What are some of the most advantageous condl- tions of learning to spell correctly!
 9 In learning, Is 1t better to give all or the tune to
 stdv of the subject matter to be learned is it bet ter devote portion of the time in the attempt to recall material that has already been mastered?
 g. Is it better in learning, to attempt to memorlze the material by commencing at the beginning and run ming through to the end consecutey ana Dy repeating this process until the whole has been mastered or is it better learn and then another part and so on?
 A. What method of presentation is more advanta- in learning? By this is meant specifically is it better to present to the child material to learn orally or vsualy, is it better present the material simul taneously successively-that is, should the whole thing that he is to learn be given at once or is he to study part and then the next and so on?
 In considering the first of these problems it be said that results at Illinois clearly point to the fact that the method of teaching children to spell by giving the word whole and breaking it up into syllables is not the psychological method and that the old method of syabcaton with of it's obvious faults had dis tnct advantages of the extreme methods of today
 Apropos the second problem it is clearly established by experiments at Illinois that there is great advantage in not spending the entire period of learning study ing the material presented but that it is of great advantage to spend part of this time in attempting recall what has been shown. Train the pupil look at the that he is trying to memorze for period and then to turn his away and in his minds eye recall the printed matter
 It is generally held by investigators that best method of memorizing is to learn the material by mencng at the beginning and running through the whole process to the end The Illinois experiments brought out this fact that in such consecutive learning certain parts that mastered quickly than oh- and that it is advantageous to first go whole material consecutvely until the easily acquired material is mastered and then to spend some time in learning those parts that difficult and to finally relearn the whole consecutively
 Now, in attempting to the fourth question: experiments have been carried at Illinois which rather clearly that the most advantageous sent material to little children visuay in success sion. The reason for this in part least because successive presentation better attention than simultaneous presentation and that the especially if it is difficult better comprehended than if it is merely heard.
 The foregoing account gives statement of some of the most typical and important experimental investiga tons now in progress in the psychological the University of Illinois As has already said the main emphasis is being placed upon the psychology of learning more specifically technique economy in our processes of acquisition. At the time ample is given for the theoretical aspects of the sub- tec that the field in general way may be covered and that those who wish obtain higher degrees in the subject find ample opportunity for the direction which interests them most.