1. Experimental pedagogy came into being in Germany at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. The main representatives are German Man Mei and Rai, French Bina, American Hall and Thorndike, and the main representatives are Experimental Pedagogy and Experimental Pedagogy Outline.

Experimental pedagogy attaches importance to the research on the relationship between children's development and education, attaches importance to experiments, and emphasizes finding ways and methods of education from the results of experiments. Its basic viewpoints mainly include:

(1) opposes Herbart's pedagogy which emphasizes conceptual speculation, and thinks that it is useless to test the quality of educational methods.

(2) Advocating the application of the research results and methods of experimental psychology to educational research, so as to make educational research "scientific".

(3) Educational experiments are divided into three basic stages: putting forward hypotheses, conducting experiments and verifying.

(4) It is advocated to explore the characteristics of children's psychological development process and their intellectual development level by means of experiments, statistics and comparison, and take the experimental data as the basis for reforming the education system, curriculum and teaching methods.