THE ELEMFNTS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

The article presents an investigation to derive an extensive list of elements of scientific method that would be suitable for the purpose of instruction in the secondary schools. At the starting of the study no sufficiently validated list of elements existed, although much material relative to the scientific method had earlier been published. A survey of literature was made in order to find a wide variety of ideas related to the nature of the scientific method. Because of the result, forty-three magazine and books articles were exposed to contain analyses of the method in adequate detail to warrant their inclusion in the list of contributing materials. Every element of scientific method found in the source was recorded upon a card in the same words of the author or in a para-phrase conveying the same meaning.