Standards and Tests for the Measurement of the Efficiency of Schools and School Systems, Volume 15, Part 1 |
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Page 158 - ARTICLE VI Meetings. — The Society shall hold its annual meetings at the time and place of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. Other meetings may be held when authorized by the Society or by the Executive Committee. ARTICLE VII Amendments.
Page 88 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Page 17 - This would require that tall, healthy children of accelerated physiological development be encouraged to proceed through school as rapidly as possible within the limits of thoroughness, and that the small, light children of retarded physiological development be kept below or in the normal grade, doing supplementary work, since these short, light pupils are immature in mental development, although in many cases precocious in degree of brightness. (BT Baldwin. A measuring scale for physical growth...
Page 15 - It will be noticed that the pre-pubescent boys range from eight and one-half to sixteen years of age in the group of country boys, and from nine and one-half to seventeen and one-half for the city boys. The post-pubescent ages range from eleven and one-half to twenty-four for the country boys and twelve and one-half to twenty-four for the city boys. For the pubescent stages the country boys range from nine and one-half to fifteen and one-half, with the mode at thirteen and one-half, and the city...
Page 47 - Construction — size, height, seating capacity, floor, acoustics, exits, obstructions, gallery (kind, seating capacity, location), light and nature of stage, finish, ornamentation. (S — For 80 ft. length on flat floor, stage should be 3 ft. 8 in. high; on dish floor, 3 ft.) c) Auxiliaries — dressing-rooms, curtain, setting, seats (kind, arrangement). 3.
Page 27 - The salt water which was obtained from the bottom of a mine of rock salt contained 0.08 of its weight of pure salt. What weight of salt water was it necessary to evaporate in order to obtain 3896 pounds of salt? 8. A gentleman gave away...
Page 61 - English had been at work for some time and had set up some tentative requirements in English which the committee felt ought to be met by every pupil who graduates from the elementary schools. These requirements were approved by the Board of Superintendents and thus became authoritative standards. The requirements are as follows: Every graduate should be able: 1. To copy twelve lines of simple prose or poetry, and a bill of at least seven items. (Copying is not an end in itself, but a means to an...
Page 109 - Directions for an informal test of oral reading follow in order to illustrate the character of such tests: "Measuring the rate of oral reading. — The simplest measurement under the ordinary conditions of class work is probably a measurement of the rate of oral reading. This record can be secured in any ordinary reading exercise as follows : Choose for this exercise one or more selections which tjje.
Page 48 - Construction — plumbing, storerooms, cabinets, finish. 2. Lecture-room — location, size, seating capacity, plumbing facilities, accessibility, fixed furniture (number, kind, arrangement). 3. Supply- and storerooms — location, size, adaptability. 4. Studios — kind, location, size, and adaptability. NOTE. — Include drawing-, art,- and music-rooms. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. BARRY, WF The Hygiene of the Schoolroom (1903). 2. BRIGGS, WR Modern American Houses (1899).
Page 112 - VARIOUS GRADES OF 43 CLEVELAND SCHOOLS No effort should be made to compare the results of successive grades with each other, because the length of the lines in different readers is different and the content of the passages is of varying difficulty. Even so, it is evident that children read more rapidly when they are free from the necessity of pronouncing words. The fact that there is not greater difference in the upper grades is undoubtedly due to the fact that school training emphasizes almost exclusively...