. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . the Xew York publicschools tested. It will be seen that the products of these two schoolsare very different. The private school makes every effort to motivatethe childrens work and the drill is incidental. The graph shows lowscores in the tables and abstract work, but high scores in reasoning andan unusual degree of accuracy. The exact reverse is true of the publicschool. Both show lack of balance, and while, of the two, it is probablethat the product of the private school has a lower time cost,
. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . the Xew York publicschools tested. It will be seen that the products of these two schoolsare very different. The private school makes every effort to motivatethe childrens work and the drill is incidental. The graph shows lowscores in the tables and abstract work, but high scores in reasoning andan unusual degree of accuracy. The exact reverse is true of the publicschool. Both show lack of balance, and while, of the two, it is probablethat the product of the private school has a lower time cost, and a greater COURTIS TESTS IN ARITHMETIC 491 I social value, it is also probable that further practice to bring the scoresto standard would be of benefit. It is particularly to be noted, however,that in these two records is another proof of the relations between rea-soning and speed and accuracy discussed above. 1. Grades Tests Addition z Subtraction 3. Multiplication 4. Division Copying FiguresSpeed Reasoning Attempts Rights 7. Fundamentals Attempts 8. Rights Reasoning AttemptsRights 0,. Fig. XXXIV Comparison of the work of two schools. Solid line from the records of a 7 th gradeclass in a New York private schoc>l; broken line from the best New York school is strong in reasoning; the other in abstract work. Neither are balanced. Bothrepresent extreme and opposite ideas as to the proper course of study. In Fig. XXXV are given the records of two selected 6A classesfrom New York schools. One school has lower scores than the others inthe tables, but the scores of the second are better balanced and the ele-mental abilities are better organized. It is to be noted particularly that,in Test 7, it is not the school with the high score in the tables, but theone with the balanced development, that makes the better showing. Inthis case the difference is probably partly due to the difference in thechildren that attend the schools. The better school has vigorous Ameri- 4
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