Teachers' marks; their variability and standardization . ange of marks given each group in the high schooland in the Freshman class in college. The data for this com-parison in the cases of the three high schools studied by Pettitare given below in Table 11: TABLE111 Giving the Median Mark and Quintile Division Points in Distribu-tions of Marks by High School Groups Quintile Division Points, High School MarksMedian 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 78 SO 72 84 74 67 76 C. Giving the Median Mark and the Quintile Division Points in Dis-tributions
Teachers' marks; their variability and standardization . ange of marks given each group in the high schooland in the Freshman class in college. The data for this com-parison in the cases of the three high schools studied by Pettitare given below in Table 11: TABLE111 Giving the Median Mark and Quintile Division Points in Distribu-tions of Marks by High School Groups Quintile Division Points, High School MarksMedian 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 78 SO 72 84 74 67 76 C. Giving the Median Mark and the Quintile Division Points in Dis-tributions of College Freshman Marks by High School Groups Quintile Division Points, College Freshman MarksMedian 1st 2nd 3rd 4th School B 81 73 School A 71 74 78 83 School C 81 79 83 88 From the high school marks School A boys seem the strongeststudents. When the marks of the first college year are taken, a High School Marks school B. School A SCHOOL C *s X J \ V f ^*— ^*-r- \ r*>— h 1 i i 65 75 80 85 College. fRE5HHA,ri Marks ~r. School C Fig. 1. (Data from Pettit.) Division points between quintiles in thedistribution according to high school marks, and again in the distributionaccording to college freshman marks for the same pupils. change appears. The median for School A drops points whilethe median for School B rises 3 points and the median for SchoolC rises 7 points. Similar reversal of the situation occurs all alongthe distribution. This is represented in the diagram, Fig. 1. 24 Teachers Marks Consider now the fate of the lowest and highest fifths of eachhigh school group. Table 12 is prepared to indicate clearlythe change which appears in the representation in the highestand lowest quintiles, by schools, between high school and fresh-man college ranks. TABLE 12 Showing the Number prom Each School Which Make up the Lowestand Highest Fifths of the High School and Freshman CollegeGroups, and the Per Cent this Number is of the Number WhichEach Scho
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