Research into the effects of different teaching styles

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Prior to 1960, most inquiries into pupils' learning skills explored the relationship between factors such as children's social background, personality or measured intelligence and their achievement in various school subjects. Studies of teachers were largely a quest for criteria of effectiveness, and numerous investigations sought links between personality or attitude and 'success' at teaching. By 1950, Domas and Tiedeman were able to survey 672 such studies of teacher effectiveness. Yet there was widespread disappointment with such research, partly because so little of value seemed to emerge. First of all, there was little agreement about what constituted 'good' teaching or who the good teachers were. Secondly, there were numerous conflicting and contradictory findings. No sooner had one investigator found a relationship which appeared to be significant, than another discovered the opposite effect.

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1. 27. D
2. 28. B
3. 29. A
4. 30. G
5. 31. J
6. 32. H
7. 33. E
8. 34. B
9. 35. G
10. 36. E
11. 37. C
12. 38. E
13. 39. F
14. 40. D

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