Taylor's life

Ralph Taylor is a famous American educator and an expert in curriculum theory and evaluation theory. He is an important founder of modern curriculum theory and a master of scientific curriculum development theory. Because of his outstanding contributions to educational evaluation theory and curriculum theory, Taylor is known as "the father of contemporary educational evaluation" and "the father of modern curriculum theory".

Ralph Taylor (1902) was born in Chicago, raised and educated in Nebraska. /kloc-After graduating from university at the age of 0/9, Ralph Tyler became fascinated with teaching while teaching natural science in South Dakota. Later, his major changed from medicine to education.

When he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he met respected educators Charles Judd and w·w· charters. The thoughts of two educators on education and examination had a great influence on his later work. From 65438 to 0927, he became a teacher at Ohio State University, where he further developed a new examination method.

From 65438 to 0938, Taylor was famous all over the country. At the invitation of robert hutchins, he brought his eight-year work in Ohio University to the University of Chicago.

Taylor was the first director of the Stanford Center for Advanced Research in Behavioral Sciences, and served for 14 years. He firmly believes that researchers should have full freedom in order to obtain the spirit of independence in research.

Although Taylor officially retired in 1967, in fact he never retired for a moment. He works in many educational institutions at home and abroad. Even when he was 80 years old, he traveled all over the country, giving advice to teachers and administrators on how to set the best teaching goals in their respective schools.

His "Basic Principles of Curriculum and Teaching" was published in 1949, and is known as "the Bible of modern curriculum theory".