Toward an applied science of education: Some key questions and directions |
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| Authors: | F Reif |
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| Institution: | (1) Physics Department, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, California;(2) Group in Science and Mathematics Education, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, California |
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| Abstract: | Recent developments suggest the possibility that education might be developed into an effective applied science. In this paper I try to identify and discuss some of the key questions which should be addressed to achieve this goal: (1) Education should be approached by the same intellectual standards as those prevalent in all other successful applied sciences. (2) It would be both intellectually challenging and practically useful to address systematically the teaching of higher-level cognitive skills. Such efforts should be based on analyses of the underlying human information processing and could profit from recent work in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. (3) Major improvements in educational delivery could be achieved by exploiting present technological means to provide most students with excellent private nonhuman tutors who can be supplemented by human teachers where these are most uniquely useful. Such an approach can be effective and practical by investing first-rate talent and substantial efforts in initial development work. (4) Universities could contribute significantly to the advancement of education by transcending their present limited educational role and striving in education for the kind of excellence and innovative leadership pursued by them in other applied sciences.This paper is a slightly revised version of a talk given at a symposium held in Boston, in February 1976, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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