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“The New Movement among physics teachers: Circular IV,” School Review 14, 746-753 (December 1906).
George R. Twiss, Laboratory Exercises in Physics for Secondary Schools, revised edition (Scott, Foresman and Co., Chicago, August 1906).
C. R. Mann to M. V. O'Shea, September 27, 1906 and October 4, 1906 (Wisconsin Historical Society, M. V. O'Shea Papers, 1883-1932, Part 1 (Wis Mss UJ, PH 6558): Original Collection, 1886-1932, Correspondence, Box 1); as cited in J. L. Rudolph, “Epistemology for the Masses: The origins of ‘The Scientific Method’ in American schools,” History of Education Quarterly 45, 341-376 (2005), n. 57 (p. 364). [Reproduced by permission of the Wisconsin Historical Society.]
Edwin H. Hall, “Discussion of the New Movement among physics teachers,” School Science and Mathematics 6, 628-631 (October 1906).
J. W. A. Young, “To teachers of physics,” School Science and Mathematics 6, 117-118 (1906).
George H. Mead, “Science in the high school,” The School Review 14, 237-253 (1906).
E. E. Burns, “The aim in high school physics teaching,” School Science and Mathematics 6, 652-656 (November 1906).
C. R. Mann, “Science in civilization and science in education,” School Review 14, 664-670 (November 1906).
Edwin G. Dexter, “Ten years’ influence of the Report of the Committee of Ten,” The School Review 14, 254-269 (1906).
C. R. Mann, “The aims and tendencies of physics teaching,” School Science and Mathematics 6, 723-730 (December 1906).
C. Riborg Mann, “The college laboratory” [College Methods and Administration IV], Education 27, 200-208 (December 1906).
A. A. Knowlton, “Review of Physics by Charles Rigborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss,” The School Review 14, 309-310 (1906).
Robert Andrews Millikan and Henry Gordon Gale, A First Course in Physics (Ginn and Co., Boston, 1906).
Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, A Laboratory Course in Physics for Secondary Schools (Ginn & Company, Boston, 1906).
College Entrance Examination Board, General Statement (CEEB, New York, 1906).
F. Pooske, A. Höfler, E. Grimsehl, Didaktik und Philosophie der Naturwissenschaft (Verlag von Julius Springer, 1906).
New York State Education Department, Secondary Education, Academic Examination Papers for the Academic Year 1905-6 (New York State Education Department, Albany, 1906).
Anonymous, “Review of Elementary Physical Science for Grammar Schools by John F. Woodhull,” The Elementary School Teacher 6, 438 (1906).
“The New Movement Among Physics Teachers: Circular V,” School Review 15, 290–298 (1907).
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., Order List of Physics Laboratory Equipment (L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., Boston, 1907).
College Entrance Examination Board, Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary: 1907 (CEEB, New York, 1907), p. 42.
Henry S. Carhart, Horatio N. Chute, Physics for High School Students (Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1907).
L. B. Avery, “A proposed improvement in physics teaching,” School Science and Mathematics 7, 196-203 (1907).
J. W. Macdonald, “Natural Science in Massachusetts High Schools,” in Seventh Annual Report of Board of Education: together with the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, 1905-1906 (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1907) pp.193-232.
F .E. Bolton, “The Preparation of High-School Teachers: What They Do Secure and What They Should Secure,” School Review 15 (2), 97–122. (1907).
W. C. Collar, “Opportunities due the secondary school teacher of physics,” School Science and Mathematics 7 (54), 574-578 (1907).
K.E. Guthe, “An ideal course in high school physics,” School Science and Mathematics 4 (51), 254-261 (1907).
Reference Books in Secondary School Physics The Association: (Jamaica Plain, Mass, 1907).
J. F. Woodhull, “Science For Culture,” School Review 15 (2), 123–133 (1907).
C. R. Mann, “The American Federation of Teachers of the Mathematical and the Natural Sciences,” Science 26, 843 (1907).
C. R. Mann, “The American Federation of Teachers of the Mathematical and the Natural Sciences,” Science 25, 338-339 (1907).
C. R. Mann, “Review of The New Knowledge by Robert Kennedy Duncan,” The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods 4, 386-388 (1907).
C. R. Mann, “The new movement for the reform of physics teaching in Germany, France and America,” in New York State Education Department, Secondary Education, New York State Science Teachers Association Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference Held at Teachers College, New York City, December 26-27, 1906 (New York State Education Department, Albany, 1907) pp. 75-99.
E. A. Strong, “How teachers of physics are ‘made in Germany,’” School Science and Mathematics 7, 57-59 (1907).
Hermann Hahn, Physikalische Freihandversuche (Verlag von Otto Salle, Berlin, 1907).
Anonymous, “Review of Simple Experiments in Physics by John F. Woodhull and M. B. Van Arsdale,” The Journal of Education 65, 273 (1907).
Frank Rollins, “Syllabuses and examinations in physics,” Educational Review 34, 347-364 (1907).
Eastern Association of Physics Teachers, Reference Books in Physics Suitable for Secondary Schools (Jamaica Printing Company, Massachusetts, 1907).
University of the State of New York, High School Department, New York State Science Teachers Association, Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Held at Teachers College, New York City, 26-27 December 1906 in Conjunction with American Association for the Advancement of Science and other Affiliated Societies (New York State Education Department, Albany, 1907).
National Education Association, Department of Secondary Education, “Secretary’s Minutes,” in Journal of Proceedings and Addresses if the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting Held at Los Angeles, California July 8-12, 1907 (National Education Association, Winona, 1907) pp. 521-668.
Frederick E. Bolton, “The preparation of high-school teachers: What they do secure and what they should secure,” The School Review 15, 97-122 (1907).
Symposium on the Purpose and Organization of Teaching Physics in Secondary Schools [Contributions by Nicholas Murray Butler, E. A. Strong, John F. Woodhull, Henry Crew, H. L. Terry, H. N. Chute, G. Stanley Hall, Albert A. Michelson, J. Mark Baldwin, George R. Twiss, R. A. Millikan, Lewis B. Avery, and John Dewey], School Science and Mathematics 8 (9) [December], 717-728 (1908); 9 (1) [January], 1-7 (1909); 9 (2) [February], 162-172 (1909); 9 (3) [March], 291-292 (1909).
W.S. Franklin, (1908). “The study of science by young people, Proceedings of the 12th Annual meeting of the New York Science Teachers,” Association, Cornell University, (Ithaca, New York, 1908), p. 91-94.
Circular VI, “A New Movement Among Physics Teachers: Circular VI,” School Science and Mathematics 8 (6), 522–525 (1908).
C. R. Mann, “The line of least resistance in education,” The Elementary School Teacher 8 (8), 448-453 (1908).
C. R. Mann, “Section L, Education," Science 27 (692), 525-528 (1908).
Robert A. Millikan, “The relation of high school and college physics,” in Proceedings of the Fifty-First Meeting of the Eastern Association of Physics Teachers, Boston, Mass., October 23-24, 1908 (Eastern Association of Physics Teachers, Boston, MA, 1908), pp. 2-18. [Original copy courtesy of Monroe C. Gutman Library, Special Collections, Harvard Graduate School of Education.]
J. H. Clo, “Physics as a pedagogical subject. II. Generalizations and classifications,” School Science and Mathematics 9, 151-155 (1909).
John F. Woodhull, “How the public will solve our problems of science teaching,” School Science and Mathematics 9, 267-280 (1909).
I. Remsen, “The Problems of Science Teaching,” School Science and Mathematics 9 , 281–284 (1909).
W. Stark, “A Retrospect and A Vision,” School Science and Mathematics 9 (3), 284-290 (1909).
H. L. Terry, “The new movement in physics teaching,” Educational Review 37, 12–18 (1909).
R. A. Millikan, “The aims and needs of high school physics” [Symposium on the Purpose and Organization of Physics Teaching in Secondary Schools, XI], School Science and Mathematics 9, 162-167 (1909).
R. A. Millikan, “The correlation of high school and college physics,” School Science and Mathematics 9, 466–474 (1909).
C. R. Mann, “The physics teacher’s problem,” Science 29 (755), 951-962 (1909).
Edwin H. Hall, “The relations of colleges to secondary schools in respect to physics,” Science 30, 577-586 (1909).
C. R. Mann, “Physics teaching in the secondary schools of America,” Science 30, 789-798 (1909).
Symposium on the Purpose and Organization of Teaching Physics in Secondary Schools (1909). [Contributions by Nicholas Murray Butler, E.A. Strong, John F. Woodhull, Henry Crew, H.L. Terry, H.N. Chute, G. Stanley Hall, Albert A. Michelson, J. Mark Baldwin, George R. Twiss, R.A. Millikan, Lewis B. Avery, and John Dewey], School Science and Mathematics 8 (December), 717-728 (1908); ibid, 9 (January), 1-7 (1909); ibid, 9 (February), 162-172 (1909); ibid, 9 (March), 291-292 (1909).
College Entrance Examination Board (1909). [by the Committee of Secondary School Teachers: N. Henry Black, Chairman, W. M. Butler, Winthrop E. Fiske, Daniel E. Owen, Willis E. Tower, and Frank B. Spaulding], “Definition of requirements in elementary physics,” School Science and Mathematics 9 (5), 572-579 (1909).
Educational Review 37 (January-May, 1909), pp. 102-103 and p. 532.
G. W. Hunter, "The method, content, and purpose of biologic science in the secondary schools of the United States," School Science and Mathematics 10, 1-10; 103-111 (1910).
John Dewey, How We Think (D.C. Heath, Boston, 1910).
Charles Riborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss, Physics, revised edition (Scott, Foresman, Chicago, 1910).
C. R. Mann, “The Present Condition of Physics Teaching in the United States,” in F. Hodson (Ed.), Broad Lines in Science Teaching (MacMillan, New York, 1910), pp. 227–238.
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Charles Riborg Mann, “Physics and Education,” School Review 18 (8), 541-547 (1910).
C. R. Mann, “Requirement or Recommendation,” School Science and Mathematics 10 (3), 264-265 (1910).
Alfred W. Porter, “Co-ordination of physics teaching in school and college: With special reference to electricity and magnetism,” in F. Hodson (Ed.), Broad Lines in Science Teaching (MacMillan, New York, 1910), pp. 108-121.
John F. Woodhull, “What specialization has done for physics teaching,” Science 31 (802), 729-731 (1910).
H. L. Terry, “Four instruments of confusion in teaching physics,” Science 31 (802), 731-734 (1910).
Eastern Association of Physics Teachers (J. W. Hutchins, Chairman of Committee), Instruction in Physics in Small High Schools (Eastern Association of Physics Teachers, Malden, MA, 1910).
John F. Woodhull, “The significance of the requirements in physics of the College Entrance Examination Board,” School Science and Mathematics 10 (1), 34-42 (1910).
J. F. Woodhull, “The teaching of physical science,” Teachers College Record 11 (1), 1-82 (1910).
John Dewey, “Science as subject-matter and as method,” Science 31, 121-127 (1910).
Edward L. Thorndike, “Testing the results of the teaching of science,” School Science and Mathematics 11 (4), 315–320 (1911).
Willis E. Tower, “An experiment: The teaching of high school physics in segregated classes,” School Science and Mathematics 11, 1–6 (1911).
S. E. Coleman, “The Purpose and Method of Experimental Work in Physics,” School Science and Mathematics 11 (9), 816–826(1911).
C. Riborg Mann, The Teaching of Physics for Purposes of General Education (Macmillan, New York, 1912).
Edwin Herbert Hall, Suggestions for Teachers Using Hall's Elements of Physics (Henry Holt, New York, 1912).
Elizabeth Duval Littell, “Practical physics in private schools for girls,” School Science and Mathematics 12, 673-677 (1912).
J. F. Woodhull, “Learning from Experience,” School Science and Mathematics 12 (7), 553-559 (1912).
Edwin H. Hall, College Laboratory Manual of Physics (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1913).
C. Riborg Mann, “Physics in daily life,” Science 37, 351-360 (1913).
John F. Woodhull, “General Science,” School Science and Mathematics 13, 499-500 (1913).
Randall, J.A. (1913). “Report of the Committee on the Improvement of Physics Teaching,” Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association of the United States [Fifty-first Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 5-11, 1913] (NEA, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1913), pp. 712-716.
C. R. Mann, “What is Industrial Science?” Science 39, 515-524 (1914).
John F. Woodhull, “General Science: Summary of opinions under revision,” Educational Review 47, 298-300 (1914).
Fred D. Barber, “The present status and real meaning of general science,” School Review 23 (1), 9–24 (1915).
O.W. Caldwell, “General Science or Special Science : Substituting the Encyclopedic for the Educative ?" School Review 23 (2), 134–135 (1915).
W. L. Eikenberry, “Some facts about the General Science situation,” School Review 23, 181–191 (1915).
Elliot R. Downing, “Nature-study and high-school science,” School Review 23, 272–274 (1915).
John F. Woodhull, “Science teaching by projects,” School Science and Mathematics 15 (3), 225-222 (1915).
R. A. Millikan, “The New Physics," School Review 23 (9), 607–620 (1915).
George R. Twiss, “Present tendencies in science teaching,” School and Society 1 (11), 387-391 (1915); “Present tendencies in science teaching: II” School and Society 1 (12), 421-427 (1915).
L. Elhuff, “Relation of General Science to Later Courses in Physics and Chemistry,” General Science Quarterly, 1 (1), 17 (1916).
C. R. Mann, “Project Teaching,” General Science Quarterly 1 (1), 13-14 (1916).
O. W. Caldwell, “An English View of Science Teaching,” School Review, 24 (2), 163–164, General Science Quarterly, 1 (1), 13-14 (1916).
J. G. Coulter, “The Training of Elementary Science Teachers,” School Review 24 (1), 26–36 (1916).
John Dewey, “Method in Science Teaching,” General Science Quarterly 1, 3–9 (1916).
J. Dewey, “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education,” (Macmillan, New York, 1916), Chap. XII (“Thinking in Education”), pp. 179-192; Chap. XIV, §3 (“Science or Rationalized Knowledge”), pp. 221-224; Chap. XVII, §1 (“The Logical and the Psychological”), pp. 256-261.
G. M. Ruch, “Some Experimental Results in the Teaching of Elementary Science,” Elementary Science, pp. 49, 50, 51 (1916).
Robert A. Millikan, “The elimination of waste in the teaching of high school science,” School Science and Mathematics 16, 193-202 (1916).
R. A. Millikan, “Science in the secondary schools,” School Science and Mathematics, 5, 379-387 (1917).
National Education Association, Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education [A Report of the Commission on Reorganization of Secondary Education, Appointed by the National Education Association; G. R. Twiss, Chairman of the Physics Committee] (Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1918).
J. F. Woodhull, The Teaching of Science (Macmillan, New York, 1918), pp. 197-239.
C. F. Phipps, “The Value of Project Study in the Teaching of Physics,” in Proceedings of the High School Conference of November 21, 22, 23, 1918, (University of Illinois, Urbana, 1919), pp. 285-289.
John Wilkes Shepherd, “Project studies in high school physics and chemistry” in Proceedings of the High School Conference of November 21, 22, and 23, 1918, edited and compiled by the High School Visitor (University of Illinois, Urbana, 1919), pp. 289-298.
Guy M. Whipple and H.L. Miller, editors, The Eighteenth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I: The Professional Preparation of High School Teachers (Public School Publishing Company, Bloomington, IL, 1919), pp. 210-212, 220-233, 243.
R. D. Rusk, “Project Science and the Physics Method,” Education XLI (1), 58-63(1920).
National Education Association, Reorganization of Science in Secondary Schools [A Report of the Commission on Reorganization of Secondary Education, Appointed by the National Education Association; G. R. Twiss, Chairman of the Physics Committee] (Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1920), pp. 49-60, “IV. Physics” and pp. 61-62, “Appendix. The Science Teacher.”
George R. Twiss, “The reorganization of high school science,” School Science and Mathematics 20, 1–13 (1920).
Henry Crew, “The bearing of recent research on the teaching of elementary physics,” School Science and Mathematics 21, 136–142 (1921).
“Central Association of Science And Mathematics Teachers’ Annual Meeting,” School Science and Mathematics 21, 255–79 (1921).
Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, Physics Section, Committees on Reorganization, “Annual Meeting [1920],” [Reports of Subcommittees on Tests, Methods, and Content], School Science and Mathematics 21, 270-279 (1921).
B. C. Hendricks, “The project as a teaching unit in high school physics,” School Science and Mathematics 21, 163-172 (1921).
Newton Henry Black and Harvey Nathaniel Davis, Practical Physics: Fundamental Principles and Application to Daily Life (Macmillan, New York, 1922).
Charles E. Dull, Essentials of Modern Physics (Henry Holt, New York, 1922).
W. L. Eikenberry, The Teaching of General Science (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1922).
Educational Committee of the American Physical Society [A. Wilmer Duff, Chairman], The Teaching of Physics, with Especial Reference to the Teaching of Physics to Students of Engineering [Presented to the Council Feb. 24, 1922. Ordered printed April 21, 1922] (American Physical Society, 1922).
F. Sanford, How to Study: Illustrated through Physics (MacMillan, New York, 1922).
Paul Drude, The Theory of Optics [Translated by C. Riborg Mann and Robert A. Millikan] (Longmans, Green and Co., Bombay, 1922).
R. D. Rusk, How to Teach Physics (Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1923), especially pp. 24-33 (Chap. 3, The Development of Physics Teaching) and pp. 73-88 (Chap. 8, Practical Physics Teaching). Chap. 3 is a useful brief review of historical developments in physics teaching. Chap. 8 is a summary of the most common teaching methods.
Educational Committee of the American Physical Society [W. J. A. Bliss, H. B. Williams, and P. E. Klopsteg, report subcommittee], Physics in Relation to Medicine [Educational Committee Report No. 2] (American Physical Society, 1923), Section II “Study of physics in preparation for medicine”; Section IV, “Course in general physics”; and Section V, “Elective course in physics for premedical students.”
N. Henry Black, "Fads and fancies in physics teaching," School Science and Mathematics 24, 184-190 (1924).
M. E. Herriott, "Life activities and the physics curriculum," School Science and Mathematics 24, 631-634 (1924).
J. M. Hughes, "Shall we mathematize or demathematize high school physics?" School Science and Mathematics 24, 916-921 (1924).
Vergil Claybourne Lohr, "Junior college students as critics of teaching technique," School Science and Mathematics 24, 975-979 (1924).
Otis W. Caldwell, "American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on the Place of the Sciences in Education," Science 60, 536-540 (1924).
George W. Hunter, "Is there a sequence in secondary school science?" School and Society 20, 762-766 (1924).
R. A. Millikan, “The problem of science teaching in the secondary schools,” School Science and Mathematics 25, 966-975 (1925).
J. M. Hughes, “A study of intelligence and of the training of teachers as factors conditioning the achievement of pupils. I,” School Review 33, 191-200 (1925); “A study of intelligence and of the training of teachers as factors conditioning the achievement of pupils. II,” School Review 33, 292-302 (1925).
George W. Hunter, "The place of science in the secondary school. I," School Review 33, 370-381 (1925); "The place of science in the secondary school. II," School Review 33, 453-466 (1925).
Vergil C. Lohr, "A study of mathematical abilities, powers, and skills as shown by certain classes in physical science," School Science and Mathematics 25, 834-844 (1925).
Joseph A. Nyberg, "A discussion of an article on mathematical abilities and physics," School Science and Mathematics 26, 9-15 (1926).
Thomas Olen Burgess, "A psychological analysis of abilities in high school physics," University of Iowa Studies in Education 3(6), 1-24 (1926).
Thomas Olen Burgess, "A psychological analysis of abilities in high school physics," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa (1926).
Educational Committee of the American Physical Society [Alpheus W. Smith, W.F. Steve, and O.M. Stewart, report subcommittee], The Teaching of Physics, with Especial Reference to the Teaching of Physics to Students in Agriculture [Educational Committee Report No. 4, Supplement to Vol. 1, No. 11 of the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Nov. 11, 1926] (American Physical Society, Menasha, WI, 1926).
M. Louise Nichols, “The high school student and scientific method,” J. Educ. Psych. 20, 196-204 (1929).
Archer Willis Hurd, Problems of Science Teaching at the College Level (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1929), especially pp. 75-88, Part III, “Studies in department of physics,” and pp. 161-184, Part V, “A supplementary study in the teaching of college physics.”
O. F. Black, The Development of Certain Concepts of Physics in High School Students: An Experimental Study (“Die Weste,” Potchefstroom, South Africa, n.d. [1930]).
A. W. Hurd, Final Test in High School Physics, Form B (Preliminary edition) (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1930).
G. M. Ruch and S. H. Meyer, “Comparative merits of physics tests,” School Science and Mathematics 316, 676-680 (1931).
A. W. Hurd, Work-Test Book in Physics (Macmillan, New York, 1932).
Whipple, G.M. (Editor.) (1932). The Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I: A Program for Teaching Science, edited by Guy Montrose Whipple, prepared by the Society’s Committee on the Teaching of Science [Gerald S. Craig, Elliot R. Downing, Charles J. Pieper, Ralph K. Watkins, Francis D. Curtis, and S. Ralph Powers] (Public School Publishing Company, Bloomington, IL, 1932), pp. 325-344 [Chap. 18, “Programs for the Education of Science Teachers in State Teachers Colleges,” for the Committee by S.R. Powers]
Watkins, R.K. (1932) (for the Committee), “Chapter XV: Instruction in Physical Science in the Secondary Schools,” in The Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I: A Program for Teaching Science, edited by Guy Montrose Whipple, prepared by the Society’s Committee on the Teaching of Science [Gerald S. Craig, Elliot R. Downing, Charles J. Pieper, Ralph K. Watkins, Francis D. Curtis, and S. Ralph Powers] (Public School Publishing Company, Bloomington, IL, 1932), pp. 243-280 (including “Objectives [of Instruction] in Physics,” “Position of the Yearbook Committee Concerning Objectives for Physics in the Senior High School,” “The Content of High School Physics Courses” and “Suggestions of the Year-Book Committee Concerning Content for Physics in the Senior High School”).
Powers, S.R. (for the Committee) (1932), “Chapter XVIII: Programs for the Education of Science Teachers in State Teachers Colleges,” in The Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I: A Program for Teaching Science, edited by Guy Montrose Whipple, prepared by the Society’s Committee on the Teaching of Science [Gerald S. Craig, Elliot R. Downing, Charles J. Pieper, Ralph K. Watkins, Francis D. Curtis, and S. Ralph Powers] (Public School Publishing Company, Bloomington, IL, 1932), pp. 325-344.
[Watkins, 1932.] Whipple, G.M. (Editor.) (1932). The Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I: A Program for Teaching Science, edited by Guy Montrose Whipple, prepared by the Society’s Committee on the Teaching of Science [Gerald S. Craig, Elliot R. Downing, Charles J. Pieper, Ralph K. Watkins, Francis D. Curtis, and S. Ralph Powers] (Public School Publishing Company, Bloomington, IL, 1932), pp. 68-72, 80-81, 243-256, and 267-280. This was a highly influential national report that reflected the ongoing transition of U.S. science education based on the “Cardinal Principles” of 1918.
Archer Willis Hurd, An Experiment in the Use of a Teaching Unit in Science (Institute of School Experimentation (Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, 1933).
Archer Willis Hurd, Coöperative Experimentation in Materials and Methods in Secondary School Physics (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1933).
Jessie Williams Clemensen, Study Outlines in Physics: Construction and Experimental Evaluation [Issue 553 of Contributions to Education, Teachers College, Columbia University] (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1933).
Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Instruction in Science [Bulletin, 1932, No. 17, National Survey of Secondary Education, Monograph No. 22] (Office of Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1933), pp. 42-63.
Fred Anibal, John C. Mayfield, Victor H. Noll, George W. Hunter, “Report of Committee on Secondary School Science of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching,” Science Educ. 22, 223-233 (1938).
D. L. Webster, “Contributions of Edwin Herbert Hall to the teaching of physics,” American Physics Teacher 6, 14-16 (1938).
Victor H. Noll, The Teaching of Science in Elementary and Secondary Schools (Longmans, New York, 1939), pp. 136-144, “The selection of content for senior high school science…physics,” pp. 184-190, “The chief uses of tests in science…physics,” and pp. 197-214, “The science teacher’s qualifications.”
A. P. Temple, “A professor of physics in a teachers college,” Education 59, 420-421 (1939).
A. R. Gay, “A teacher of physics in high school,” Education 59, 422-424 (1939).
H. Emmett Brown, “The plight of high school physics: I. Water-tight compartments,” School Science and Mathematics 39, 840-845 (1939).
AAAS. (1940). Physics instruction for purposes of general education, American Journal of Physics 8, 49-54.
M. H. Trytten, “A study of secondary school physics,” American Journal of Physics 8, 54-56 (1940). Statistics on teacher preparation in Pennsylvania.
H. Emmett Brown, “The Plight of high school physics: VI. Unit trouble,” School Science and Mathematics 41, 36-42 (1941).
Hurd, A. W. (1941). “Report of Committee of N.A.R.S.T. on Teacher Preparation,” Science Education 25, 247-251. This is a survey of teachers’ reasons for going into science teaching.
Trytten, M.H. & Leach, J.M. (1941). "A Study of Secondary Physics in Pennsylvania," American Journal of Physics 9 (2), 96-101. Survey results and statistics on teachers and students.
Stephenson, R.J. & Warner, G.W. (1941). Physics for General Education, American Journal of Physics 9, p. 50.
Warner, E.H. (1941). Secondary School Physics in Arizona, Am. J. Phys., 9 (6), 368-371.
Hurd, A.W. (1941). “Report of Committee of N.A.R.S.T. on Teacher Preparation,” Science Education 25, 247-251.
Kenneth E. Vordenberg, “High school physics for general education: Report of the Committee on Physics Teaching, Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers,” School Science and Mathematics 41, 548-552 (1941).
William Arlow Kilgore, Identification of Ability to Apply Principles of Physics [Issue 840 of Contributions to Education, Teachers College, Columbia University] (Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1941).
Lark-Horovitz, K, Chairman, “Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in Secondary Schools,” American Journal of Physics 10, 60-61 (1942). Report on the formation of the AAAS Cooperative Committee.
Powers, S.R. (1942). Preparation of science teachers to contribute to general education, School Science and Mathematics 42, 315-325. A summary of the report by the NEA-NCST/ACST.
National Committee on Science Teaching, American Council of Science Teachers (Subcommittee on Teacher Education, Samuel Ralph Powers, Chairman), The Education of the Science Teacher (The American Council of Science Teachers, a department of the National Education Association of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1942).
AAAS Cooperative Committee on Science Teaching, “The preparation of high-school science teachers: A preliminary report of the Cooperative Committee on Science Teaching,” School Science and Mathematics 42, 636-650 (1942).
G. Osborn, “The post-war teachers college program for the training of science teachers,” School Science and Mathematics 43, 817-823 (1943).
H. Emmett Brown, “Mathematics and physics,” Science Education 27, 88-94 (1943).
K. Lark-Horovitz, “On the preparation and certification of teachers of secondary school science,” Am. J. Physics 11, 41-42 (1943).
Karl W. Bigelow, R.J. Havighurst, F.J. Kelly, and K. Lark-Horovitz [Committee on Basic Sciences], “On the Teaching of the Basic Sciences: A Committee Report,” American Journal of Physics 12, 359-362 (1944).
K. Lark-Horovitz, C. W. MacLean, T.S. Osgood, G.E.O. Peterson, F.H. Pumphrey, J.W. Schneck, R.J. Stephenson, L.W. Taylor, and G.W. Warner, “Responsibilities of science departments in the preparation of teachers: A report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in Secondary Schools,” American Journal of Physics 14, 114-115 (1946).
AAAS Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics, “The present effectiveness of our schools in the training of scientists,” in Science and Public Policy, Volume 4, President’s Scientific Research Board (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1947), pp. 82-109. Summary of recommendations by AAAS Cooperative Committee regarding recruitment and training of teachers; to be read in parallel with AAAS Committee, Preparation of Teachers (1946).
Victor H. Noll, William A. Brownell, Otis W. Caldwell, Gerald S. Craig, Francis D. Curtis, and Ellsworth S. Obourn with collaboration of H. Emmett Brown, “The course in physics,” in the Forty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I: Science Education in American Schools, edited by Nelson B. Henry, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1947), pp. 208-221, [from Chapter XII: The Content and Methods of Senior High School Science.]
Victor H. Noll, William A. Brownell, Otis W. Caldwell, Gerald S. Craig, Francis D. Curtis, and Ellsworth S. Obourn, with collaboration of S. R. Powers, “Chapter XVI: The education of science teachers for secondary schools,” in The Forty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I: Science Education in American Schools, edited by Nelson B. Henry (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1947), pp. 273-288.
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