. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . nt. Efficiency of Present System of Grading The whole question of relative ability and grading is an importantone for which the present machinery of promotion is utterly better proof of the inability of the school without objective meas-urement to grapple successfully with its problems is needed than is foundin the fact that if children were graded mechanically on an age basisalone—all children of from ten to eleven years of age being put in thefourth grade, those eleven years old i
. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . nt. Efficiency of Present System of Grading The whole question of relative ability and grading is an importantone for which the present machinery of promotion is utterly better proof of the inability of the school without objective meas-urement to grapple successfully with its problems is needed than is foundin the fact that if children were graded mechanically on an age basisalone—all children of from ten to eleven years of age being put in thefourth grade, those eleven years old in the fifth grade, and so on—thegrades would be neither more nor less variable than they are at presentin respect to the fundamental abilities of arithmetic. The data uponwhich this statement is based will be found in Table XL\^II. The dis-tributions of the scores of 5A boys and girls in Test i, addition, aregiven; also the distributions on an age basis. The average of eachgroup is also given. SCORE - 1 1 ■ 80 3. M ultipl icatio n 604020 • ^ ^ - 0 -M «^ __ r-^ -^ -f. GRADES 6. Speed Test—reasoning R* 1 1 1 1 1 : s y >>i* r^ /• M A -•■ 0 i - ^ 0 <^- ^ _^ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO 11 12GRADES Fig. XLVI Comparison of achievements of boys and girls in Speed Test 3. Multiplication, andTest 6, Speed Reasoning; attempts and rights. Solid line, boys; dotted line, girls_ exceed the boys in multiplication and fall below them in accuracy of workin reasoning. These tests were chosen as representing the extreme diflferences in theachievements of the sexes. The amount of the differences are insignificant. See Fis:.XLVIII. 5-i^ EDUCATJOXAL IXl LSI IGAIIOX r;; Ml
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