Attach importance to experiments
The basic characteristics of experimental pedagogy are paying attention to the relationship between children's development and education, paying attention to experiments, and finding ways and methods of education from the results of experiments.
Based on natural science
Scholars of experimental education criticized the old education for emphasizing logical reasoning and abstract speculation, and believed that the result would inevitably lead to the separation from educational practice and educational objects. Through observation, investigation, calculation, measurement and statistics, they strive to establish pedagogy on the basis of natural science and make pedagogy a real science.
Popularize the theory of science education.
Experimental pedagogy provides an important theoretical basis for new education, promotes the scientificization of educational theory, liberates pedagogy from philosophy, gives useful enlightenment to practical educators, and has a far-reaching impact on educational wealth at that time and later generations.
Ignore social factors
The main problems in experimental education are: one-sided emphasis on children's biology, over-consideration of nature and science education, and neglect of social factors; Experimental method is regarded as the only method of educational research, ignoring the difference between social science and natural science, so that it simply copies the method of natural science.