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educational, a.|ɛdjuːˈkeɪʃənəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
†1. Due to, or arising from, education. Obs.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 30 The educationall and professionall are to be.. accounted for nationall sinnes. 1790C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 212 Every love intrigue..must naturally tend to debase the female mind, from its violence to educational impressions. 1815Ashbel Green Report 287 Opinions which interfered with his educational creed.
2. Of or pertaining to education; concerned with education. Also in Special Combs.: educational psychology (see quot. 1961); so educational psychologist; educational sociology, the study of educational methods or systems from a sociological standpoint.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. xi, Is there not an everlasting demand for Intellect in the..political, or religious, educational, commercial departments. 1837Bulwer Athens II. 413 Much of his [Pythagoras] educational discipline..bear[s] an evident affinity to the old Cretan..institutions. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 192 The regeneration..of our educational institutions is an object of more urgency. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. Pref. 5 The history of educational progress in any country, can hardly fail to be interesting to the historian. 1917W. R. Smith (title) Introduction to educational sociology. 1923D. Snedden Educational Sociology I. iii. 33 Educational sociology has as its chief province the scientific determination of educational objectives. It constitutes an applied or linking science between the fields of sociology (as a pure science) and social economy (as the science of all phases of human well-being) on the one hand, and the practice of education on the other. 1928W. R. Smith Princ. Educational Sociology I. i. 6 Educational sociology may be defined as the application of the methods, principles, and data of sociology to the study and practice of education. Its interests center about the socializing process, as those of educational psychology center about the learning process. 1936Discovery May 147/1 More books on educational films. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IV. 814/2 The experience of the forces educational broadcasts. Ibid. 815/1 ‘Further educational’ broadcasting includes all types of serious broadcasting. Ibid. 816/1 Educational psychology..includes observation of human beings in action and inquiry into all the means by which their behaviour is modified through their contact with other human beings either directly or indirectly. 1960Where? III. 13/2 Educational psychologist, a man or woman who studies human behaviour and the human mind in order to deal with the problems of children, and, sometimes, their teachers. 1961Webster, Educational psychology, a field of study that deals with the application of objective psychological methods and esp. of standardized tests to such problems as the selection of students for advanced or specialized training, the assessment of a student's progress, and the development of more effective methods of instruction.
Hence eduˈcationally adv., with reference to education; from an educational point of view. educationally subnormal adj. phr., applied to children who are mentally backward and cannot be taught in ordinary schools.
1845R. Hamilton Pop. Educ. viii. (ed. 2) 196 Educationally considered, the sister isle is not an ignorant country. 1881Atlantic Monthly XLVII. 296 Educationally he has been of service to us, and merits our thanks. 1886Durham Univ. Jrnl. 20 Feb. 3 The Durham course is educationally better than what a Theological College is able to offer. 1953C. L. Burt Causes & Treatm. Backwardness (ed. 2) 5 Special arrangements for those children..who appeared to be educationally subnormal. 1960[see E.S.N. s.v. E III].
▸ educational age n. (a) an age, or age range, at which a person is expected to be in full-time education; school age (now rare); (b) chiefly Psychol., the standard to which a person, esp. a child, is educated, expressed as the age at which a similar degree of education is attained by an average or typical person.
1845Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 8 211 As few people marry after the marrying age, as there are who learn to read and write after the *educational age. 1921Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 261 Two industrial institutions organized for production rather than for education and training, for those beyond educational age. 1923R. Pintner Intelligence Testing iv. 81 The E.A. (educational age) divided by the C.A. (chronological age) gives an E.Q. (educational quotient). 1998Birmingham Post (Nexis) 18 July 6 We have been told he has the educational age of an 11-month-old boy.
▸ educational quotient n. (a) Psychol. (now rare), a numerical measure of educational level, relative to age, arrived at by dividing educational age by chronological age (and freq. expressed as a percentage value); abbreviated EQ; cf. intelligence quotient n.; (b) chiefly U.S., educational content.
1920R. Franzen in Teachers Coll. Rec. 21 435 *Educational quotient..is the quotient resulting from the division of the age level reached in the test in question by the chronological age of the pupil. 1956F. L. Goodenough Exceptional Children vii. 76 All children in the elementary school grades were given the Stanford Achievement Test which provides an excellent measure of the child's knowledge of the subjects taught in the elementary school. From this test educational quotients..were derived. 1985Sales & Marketing Managem. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 144 Information technology will invest future sales jobs with a much higher educational quotient. 1997Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 21 Oct. 5 c, Below are 14 shows that target children or teens... They've been evaluated on two attributes—entertainment value..and educational quotient. |