Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado . TOTAL 276,587 19 37 34 8 2 Denver Public Schools 69 SEGREGATION OF SOME MARKS IN DIFFERENT SUBJECTS Table 2. Showing percentage distribution of marks in certain grade and ,high-school subjects. Number Percentages SUBJECT Marks Included A B C D E Mathematics, grades, 13 teachers 2,020 13 32 42 10 3 English, grades, 7 teachers 1,404 13 29 44 10 4 History, grades, 4 teachers 323 24 24 24 24 4 Latin, senior and junior high, 13 1,866 30 31 26 10 3 English, senior high, 27 te
Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado . TOTAL 276,587 19 37 34 8 2 Denver Public Schools 69 SEGREGATION OF SOME MARKS IN DIFFERENT SUBJECTS Table 2. Showing percentage distribution of marks in certain grade and ,high-school subjects. Number Percentages SUBJECT Marks Included A B C D E Mathematics, grades, 13 teachers 2,020 13 32 42 10 3 English, grades, 7 teachers 1,404 13 29 44 10 4 History, grades, 4 teachers 323 24 24 24 24 4 Latin, senior and junior high, 13 1,866 30 31 26 10 3 English, senior high, 27 teachers 4,518 17 36 35 9 3 Mathematics, senior high, 25 teachers 3,857 25 27 34 9 5 French and Spanish, senior high, 16 teachers. 2,257 36 26 26 9 3 History, senior high, 15 teachers 2,499 26 33 30 8 3 Science, senior high, 16 teachers 2,350 19 33 34 10 4 Commercial, senior and junior high, 15 2,383 42 27 20 9 2 Manual training, domestic science, drawing, senior and junior high, 22 teachers 3,673 39 27 5 .5 Physical education, senior and junior high, 2,457 14 29 2 .6 7o Sixteenth Annual Report 5CM. Normal curve Denver Figure 5. Showing distribution of marks assigned by 1,000 Denverteachers first semester, 1918-1919, in comparison with the probability curve. The skewing of Denver marks to the upper end of the scaleindicates that they are neither marks of ability nor of actual accom-plishment, because so large a number of marks would certainly fallnear the percentages in which it has been shown that human traitsare distributed when large numbers are under consideration. Thisis what we should expect from the different answers given to thoquestion as to what traits teachers have in mind when they assignmarks. Denver Public Schools 7i 60£
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