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- Title
HOW IS DIFFICULTY OF SUBJECT MATTER A FACTOR AFFECTING LEARNING GENERAL SCIENCE?
- Authors
Smith, Victor C.
- Abstract
The article presents information regarding the ability of a student to learn a particular subject matter. There are two definite and opposed schools of thought. According to one view, which is represented in its most extreme position by certain objective test makers, a given item of subject matter taught to a given school population has a definite difficulty which can be determined by converting it into an objective test item for a certain school population a given item will be answered correctly by a certain percent of students, and that thereafter the difficulty of this item for all similar populations is known almost as definitely as is a unit of measurement in the physical world. According to another view, learning of subject matter is affected by many factors like motivation, interest, and amount and method of exposure are assumed to make the learning of given subject matter more or less difficult.
- Subjects
OUTCOME-based education; ABILITY testing; BASIC education ability testing; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; ABILITY; STUDENTS; OBJECTIVE tests; ACHIEVEMENT tests
- Publication
Science Education, 1946, Vol 30, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730300105