INVESTIGATION OF METHODS SELECTING STUDENTS WITH GIFTED TALENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES THROUGH THE EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATION OF SCIENCE BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AROUND 1945.

科学实验教育从1945年1月开始，至1947年3月结束。教育的直接目标是将有天赋的儿童尽可能有效地培养成优秀的科学家和工程师，他们可以为开发令美国印象深刻的新武器做出贡献。在此期间，从10岁到15岁的男孩和女孩中挑选了700多名学生，在高校教授的指导下集中学习科学和数学。录取方式因负责教育的机构不同而有所不同，主要采用成就测验、能力测验、智力测验、智力素质测验、推荐和面试等方式选拔理科特长生。有些则是从继承的角度来考虑的。尽管时间很短，但在最困难的时候，在高等科学和数学的学习、研究性学习、物理、化学、生物等实验的基础上，进行了一些独特的、具有自由氛围的教育，这可能有助于对我们未来教育的改进。学生们被这种特殊教育留下了深刻的印象和影响，一些人最终被引导成为科学家和工程师。这项对60岁左右的学生进行的问答调查正在谨慎地计划中，以检验科学实验教育的更详细的效果。

The Experimental Education of Science started from January 1945 and ended in March 1947. The direct objective of The Education was to train gifted children as effective as possible for their growth to superior scientists and engineers who can contribute to the development of new weapons oberwhelming U.S.ones. During this period, more than seven hundred students, selected from boys and girls at the age from ten to fifteen years old, had concentrated to study scienses and mathematics under the instruction offered by professors of colleges and universities. The admission methods selecting entrants were different according to the institutes responsible for The Education.Achievement Test, Aptitude Test, Mental Test, Intelligence Quality Test, Recomendation and Interview were mainly utilized to select students with gifted talent for science. Some were considered from the view point of their inheritage aspects. Despite the very short period, some unique education with liberal atmosphere had been carried out during the hardest time on the basis of studies of advanced sciences and mathematics, research studies, experiments in physics, chemistry, biology and so on, which may contribute to suggest the improvement of our education in the future. The students had been impressed and influenced by this special education and some were eventually led to become scientists and engineers afterwards. The loffow-up study by question-answering sheet towards the students, now around sixty years old, is being prudently planned to examine more detailed effects of The Experimental Education of Science.