Review of Educational psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, Educational psychology by D. Starch (1927). To the one who is already acquainted with Starch's earlier book, little more comment concerning the present volume is needed than to say that it is written from very much the same point of view and has been brought on the whole very well up to date. Most of the recent investigations of note in Educational Psychology have found their way into the book. The reviewer feels that the volume would have been of more practical value if some of the standard tests used in the investigations relating to school subjects were of more recent date. In many instances references are made to tests which have long since been supplanted. It is of course a stupendous task to keep up with all of the new tests which are being devised, and a book of this sort should not be expected even to list all of them. As in the earlier edition, a large proportion of the text, approximately forty per cent, is given to the psychology of school subjects, thus reducing the value of the book for a department in which a separate course is given on these topics. For a general course, however, the reviewer reports that this probably represents the best book available. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)