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¹See accuracy of spelling accuracy scores average accuracy Beveridge cent child city wide median class 46 class scores Cleveland CLEVELAND GARY coefficient of correspondence COMPARATIVE comparison composition test conventional schools copying figures curve dictation test difficulty eighth grade children eighth grade class eighth grade score Emerson fifth grade fourth grade free choice test Froebel Gary children Gary eighth grade Gary results Gary schools Gary scores grade to grade Grand Rapids Jefferson judgments Kansas Silent Reading letters per minute line represents list test measure median score multiplication tables number of examples number of words papers paragraph points Rate Accy rate and accuracy rate of reading rate of writing read as follows Salt Lake City samples sentences seventh grade Silent Reading Tests spelling ability spelling tests standard tabulation teacher tests were given third grade tion total number Trabue unit of variability variation words per minute
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Page 261 - THE crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good- will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame.
Page 494 - You will be given eight minutes to find the answers to as many of these addition examples as possible. Write the answers on this paper directly underneath the examples. You are not expected to be able to do them all. You will be marked .for both speed and accuracy, but it is more important to have your answers right than to try a great many examples.
Page 425 - Next Saturday I should like to go away and have a good time on a farm. I should like to watch the men plowing the fields and planting corn, wheat, and oats and other things planted on farms. Next Saturday I will go to the Pioneer meeting if nothing happens so that I cannot go. I should like to go swimming but it is not warm enough and I would catch a bad cold. I should like to go to my aunts and drive the horses, I do not drive without some older person with me, so I cannot go very often. I should...
Page 527 - Board are official account! of its activities and expenditures. The STUDIES represent work in the field of educational investigation and research which the Board has made possible by appropriations defraying all or part of the expense involved.
Page 27 - The median, in educational statistics, has been defined as that point on the scale of the frequency distribution, on each side of which one half of the measures fall.
Page 508 - Begin.' Stop at the end of each paragraph until I say 'Next.' If you should find some hard words, read them as best you can without help and continue reading.
Page 259 - Call achievement in paragraph reading that thing much of which enables an individual to respond correctly to a difficult paragraph and questions about a paragraph." This seems to me to be of the nature of educational camouflage. What he has done is to make a test in which the response on analysis proves to be influenced by such abilities among others as ability to read, reason, write, and spell. He is unable...
Page 379 - ... either favorably or unfavorably by the enriched curriculum, or other special features of the Gary schools. The results do not mean at all that the movement for the socialization of school work Is wrong, that the new type of organization is injurious, and that a modernized program is a failure. * * * When the investigation was undertaken, It was expected that decisive results would be secured, it must now be emphasized again and again that the effects of the newer Ideals of education have not...
Page 322 - No. 11 We planted three trees in a row. The first one was nine feet tall and the last one was three feet shorter than the first one. The middle one was two feet taller than the last one. How tall was the middle one? No. 12 Below are three lines.
Page 25 - Part II of the Seventeenth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.