Recent Books scientific Method in Education. wlr. CLARK tributions t o Education. No. 191, 1925. vii Taow, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Educa74 pp. Cloth, $1.50 net. tion, College of Education, University of This monogrsph is the report of a study of Cincinnati. Houghto" Mimi" company. Bo.. high~sehool chemistry from the standpoint of ton, 1925. xi 159 pp. 18 X 12 cm. $1.20 hish-school administration. I t reports present net. practices in administration a? these are revealed from data gathered from selected sehooln; i t This book is one of the well-known series of evaluates these practices; and i t makes specific Rivuarde Educational Monographs, edited by recommendations. The methods u.ed are chiefly President Henry Sunallo. experimental and statistical. The sueeesr of the scientific method in certain C h a p t u I1 reports data gathered by qursfields of inveptigation ha3 lead to analyris and tionnaire, from selected high ~choolr. These generali~ationn of the methods and these have relate t o budgeting: requisitioning: the purbeen transferred t o n e w fields. I n the physical phase, accounting, storage, and distribution scimeer the need for accurate data has long been of supplies; internal organization of the l a b a r a ~ recognized. Galileo. Co-icur, Kepler. Partory; laboratory space provisions; service; pcrteur, Lavoisicr are illustration. of those who have manent equipment; and sre protection. T h e made their namen immortal by their recogjudgments of teachers and principals from a nition of the need for factn and by their ability n o u p of selected high schools are used t o evaluate t o collect, classify, and interpret them. Applicathere practice.. tion of the scientific method has resulted in enarThe author's comyariron of Lhe results obmous developments in the biological sciences, tained from laboratory instruction following medidne, psychology, and other fields. Itn use different methods is or particular interest to both teachern and administrators. H e compared the results obtained from instruction by (1) the teacher demonstration method. (2) t h e customs, and dependence vpon religious and individual pupil method, and (31 the method in civil authority t o a method of solving problems which pupils work in groups of two. Results which is based upon interpretation of carefully presented were obtained from experimental collected dat'a. Noteworthy analyses are made teaching and testing of results io twenty-three of the method of problem solving (Chapter 111) cosperating schools located in fourteen different and of the use of inrtrummtr of precision (Chapstater. ter IV) in the scientific procedure. The final chapter reports a summation of The multiplication of publieations carrying recOmmendations for the departmental organizquantitative and experimental 3tudies in educaation of science in secondary schools and if tion shows clearly that the method of theseicntist suggests the functions of this organization. is finding rapid extension in the field of education. The data upon which the statintical calculations Thore xiences which contribute most t o the meare based, and the tests used in the experiment thods of studying educational problems are psyare printed in an appendix. chology, medicine, sociology, and economics. This book presents a well-defined problem. The last chapter defines the field of education scientifically attacked, and clearly written. and shown the need for and the possibilities of I t is of value t o all who are interested in science rcienttfic experimentation within the field. teaching and especially t o those interested in the The monograph is w i t t e n in aeellent -style teaching and administration of high-school and the theme which i t develop3 is a very pertchemistry. inent one for teachers of chemistry. Not inS. R. PoWBnS frequently outrtaoding scientists in one field are intolerant of and "unrcientifie" in their attitude Manual of Modern Chemistry (Leitfaden toward the efforts of scientific workers in other der Gegenwartschemie flir H6here Schulenl fields. For such as these this little monograph Pert I, Inorganic. Prof. Dr. GrrSrhv M e u e ~ . ir especially recommended. Stvdienrat in the Reformrealgymnasium of S. R. Powsas GMitr. Georg Thieme, Leipdg. First edition, 1925. rv 185pp. 45 figs. 13 X 19.5 Certain Phases of the Administration of cm. High-School Chemistry. Wssrorr W~LLIAM This work is mainly
