Intellectual Difference between Rural Children and City Children

A Factor Analytic Study

Abstract

reproduction can remember better than a subject group that has not experienced reproduction at all. However, my viewpoint in this particular study is quite different from that of the experiment on memory. In those memory experiments the above fact is considered undesirable inasmuch as it disturbs the rigidity of the experiments. However, from the standpoint of this particular study, this fact is regarded favorably as one that could successfully be used in teaching.
Here nonsense syllables and two-number figures were used as study material. The experiment was conducted in the control group method and the rotation method. Two equivalent groups were organized through the matched-pair method in accordance with the results obtained from immediate reproduction of what had been learned. The process of this experiment is as Figures 2, 3 and 4. After one or two days' interval from the original learning, a test was given only to the experimental group. Then, after another interval of two or three days, a critical test was given to both groups, experimental and control.
The effect of the interpolated test given only to the experimental group can be observed in the difference of the results of the critical test between the two groups.
Four experiments in total were carried out. The results are shown on Tables 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. They all point to the fact that the interpolated test was definitely effective. In general, giving of test itself produces a positive effect to learning products.
Based on the fact of “Testing Effect” the following two possible interpretations are suggested:
1) By giving a test the memory-traces which remain from original learning can be reinforced.
2) A “set” convenient for reproduction of the traces can be maintained.