The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-11
Two Years Ago Today the Ae Which Ended the Most nan War
In the Worlds History Was Sgned Today We Honor Living And Dead
Woodruff And Rinsland of Ardmore
High School Make Report of State
Educational Conference At Norman

c. II. Woodruff, principal of Ard
more high school, and Henry d. Rims
land, director Of research and guild
ance in the public schools, make the
following reports on Vocational
Guidance and Visual Instruction" and
Educational and Intelligence Tests"
as brought out in the state confer
ence at Norman, held recently. Mr..
Woodruffs report deals with the
former, while Mr.. Rinsland takes UP
the other subject:
Vocational Guidance and Visual
instruction"
The three phases OF educational
work discussed at the Oklahoma High
School Conference were intelligence
and educational tests, vocational guild
ance and visional instruction. l
shall report on vocational guidance
and visional instruction and Mr..
Rinsland on tests.
The principal speaker on voca-
tional guidance was Or. Edward Lee
Thorndike OF Columbia University.
New York City. He gave the re-
sults of q study of 100 of the most
eminent engineers and the most emf
nent lawyers in America. Each was
asked to name all of the things which
he had made when a boy from the
ages of IL to l6 years. Everyone OF
the engineers had made more than
SIX things, ranging from toy wagons,
balloons, water mills, to Il complete
dwelling and toy locomotive. or the
lawyers, one had edited a school paper
and the other had built q top ship.
the principal part OF which was q
shineie. rT. Thorndikc claims that
educators today agree tnat the future
vocation OF boys and girls will be
the things in which they are inter
ested and the things which they like;
that IL We watch their interests from
about the sixth grade into the high
school we can with some degree Of
selection Of their school and life work
and predict the type o. vocation for
which they are best fitted. The vo-
cational guidance card that is used
in the Ardmore schools shows that
the things DR.. ThorndIke speaks Of
are actually being worked in the
Ardmors schools. This record keeps
tract Of the interests. likes, dislikes,
hobbies, successes. failures. home con-
ditions, health. etc, OF all children
IN the Ardmore schools through the
sixth grade to the twelfth.
Relative TO visual instruction and
experiment performed by DR.. Shep-
herd, Of Oklahoma University, the
following was related. Three groups
of children as nearly equal in ability
as possible were selected The very
best teacher in q northern college
taught geographical lesson TO the
first group, an average teacher TO
the second group and n motion pic
ture with only person to turn on
a switch and not say word. to the
third group. After the lesson each
group was measured by exhaustive
tests and II was found that the
group with the moving picture ma
chine knew more about the lesson in
geography.
Visual instruction Is already here
and thes chools should make use Of
this realistic and interesting teacher.
The Ardmore high school is equipped
with very fine machine and q series
OF pictures will be shown SOON"
Mr. Woodruff concluded by saying
he hopes that the day will soon come
when every schoolroom in this city
will have q moving picture machine
and films able to Illustrate every
subject throughout the school year.
Educational and Intelligence Tests
MIR. Rinsland said In part;
1T is a fine thing 10 hear the
greatest man in America discuss the
problem of your particular vocation.
but to sit with him for more than
two hours and 10 discuss intimately
the particular problems in your own
shop, to have his keen intellect and
authoritative views given, cannot be
measured in terms of dollars and
cents to the institution you represent.
pr. Thorndike who ten years ago
advanced the first scale in measured
handwriting made the first great
contribution to scientific measure
Of education and who today is leading
in this work went into the details
OF problems in Arlmore.
las result of this conference We
will not change our program for tho
first eight grades but the program
for the high school will be enlarged
considerably. Superintendent Richards
ALREADY having given HIS consent. II
Is believed that not only will the In
s,itution profit. but the individual
student In the high school win be
greatly benefited by this work.
This is the day of bulldog" tenao-
l,y. and the colleges and universities
are testing all who come to their
doors for admission with the most
strenuous test which they can de-
wise. tests which will measure the
ability of the student to stick through
four years OF work, who will not drop
out in the sophomore year. but VIII
graduate and take their degree. be-
lIeye and so does Or. Thorndike, that
If we inauguratc u series of such
measures throughout the senior year,
and can tell our graduates In tho