The methods of research are much the same in education as in other sciences: observation and description of individual children; questionnaires seeking data from large numbers; experimental investigation of specific problems, particularly by means of tests; genetic studies of growing children; pathological studies of abnormal children; and statistical analysis of the data collected. Teaching, however, consists in much more than mere applied psychology; problems which have formed the chief subjects for research fall under one or other of two main heads: (1) the development and peculiarities of the individual minds to be educated; (2) the best methods to be adopted in educating them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)