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Experimental Investigation of Visual Instruction 11
The thing that progressive school men must guard against, therefore, is failure to know exactly the use that we must make of this objective aid. If we introduce it as an experiment and happen accidentally to use it in a place where it does no good, we must protect ourselves from the danger of judging too hastily and discarding the whole matter without careful trial. If by chance we try it in a place where it is most likely to succeed we must protect ourselves from the danger of overenthusiasm.
There is only one way to accomplish this. We must subject the use of the motion picture in schools to the same scientific scrutiny that today is being given to the teaching of spelling, to the use of drill work, to the use of phonics in the teaching of beginning reading, to the value of supervised study, to the measurement of results of teaching and problems of a similar sort.
One object of the Society for Visual Education will be to supply to the educational world accurate information based upon the results of scientific experiment as to the right and wrong kinds of school films, right and wrong places to use them, and right and wrong methods of teaching with them. We are gathering together a committee of investigators who will act in an advisory capacity in planning and mapping out experimental investigation and we are supplying funds to see that these experiments are carried to a convincing conclusion. It is our intention that experiments of a fundamental sort shall be carefully devised and tried in a few places to perfect the method of work. We then expect to publish the tentative results, and, to verify our conclusion, to try the same experiments on many children in many schools. Only in this way can the motion picture achieve its greatest success in the American school, and if we receive the cooperation of our teachers, we can safely say that we can eliminate years of inadequate trial and error in our schools.
A more specific statement of the plans of the committee will appear in the February number of Visual Education.
William F. Bussell, Dean of the College of Education, University of Iowa.
Chairman, Committee on Educational Research.