Paper and pencil research in the college classroom

Abstract

Under the urge to devise new tests and assist in the standardization of recent tests it has become the quite common practice for the instructor to use his students not alone for contributing data but to lend a hand in the scoring and tabulating of the results. The pedagogical value of such procedure is at least nebulous if not positively doubtful. The author's thesis is that in a rather considerable and rapidly increasing number of instances much of the college and normal school students' time in the classroom is exploited by their teachers in paper and pencil research with but meagre, if any, returns to the student himself. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)