THE COLLEGE AS A LABORATORY FOR APPLYING FINDINGS AND METHODS OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Abstract

In 1955, Goddard College undertook to discover how research findings and methods of the behavioral sciences might be applied to the improvement of college education. The program, initiated under a grant from the Pratt Foundation, is based on three assumptions.One is that the profession of college teaching is one which requires a deep and personally meaningful knowledge of human behavior. In addition to being master of an academic field, the college teacher should understand individual and environmental factors which motivate people, which affect learning, and which shape the patterns of life of college students