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Excerpt from An Experiment to Determine the Number of Repetitions Necessary to Memorize and Retain With Maximum Certainty a Miscellaneous Collection of Facts: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennysylvania in Part Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
That scientific methods should be used in procur ing pedagogical knowledge or in deriving facts upon which principles may be formulated, may seem strange, but it is in no way more unusual than the use of the same methods in any other field of human endeavor. The good teaching which we have will be improved as soon as principles based upon facts scientifically deter mined are applied in the practical work of the school room. Valuable indeed to any teacher will it be to know the number of repetitions needed by children, under ordinary circumstances, to learn things, and equally valuable will it be to know how frequent the repetitions must be in order that the facts may be retained when once they are learned.
In the experiments of which a description follows, an attempt was made to determine.
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