Measuring the Work of the Public Schools

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Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1916 - 290 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 251 - THE crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good- will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame.
Σελίδα 243 - ... should be kept of all tests made. The prescribed passages from the Jones Readers should be used on a given day in each building after sufficient preliminary practice to insure that the teachers know how to make the tests. Throughout the preliminary practice and the final uniform test every reading exercise should be made a part of the regular instruction of the class. Measuring the rate of oral reading. — The simplest measurement under the ordinary conditions of class work is probably a measurement...
Σελίδα 250 - The part of farming enjoyed most by a boy is the making of maple sugar. It is better than blackberrying and almost as good as fishing. One reason why a boy likes this work is that someone else does most of it. It is a sort of work in which he can appear to be very industrious and yet do but little.
Σελίδα 5 - Trades" is one of the 25 sections of the report of the Education Survey of Cleveland conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in 1915. Twenty-three of these sections have been published as separate monographs. In addition there is a volume entitled "Wage Earning and Education, " which is a summary of the sections relating to industrial education. The final volume, which is entitled "The Cleveland School Survey...
Σελίδα 250 - One of the most interesting birds which ever lived in my bird-room was a blue jay named Jackie. He was full of business from morning till night, scarcely ever still. He had been stolen from a nest long before he could fly, and he had been reared in a house long before he had been given to me as a pet.
Σελίδα 249 - Once there were a cat and a mouse. They lived in the same house. The cat bit off the mouse's tail. "Pray, puss," said the mouse, "give me my long tail again.
Σελίδα 243 - 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.
Σελίδα 122 - Minor mispronunciations, which include the pronunciation of a portion of a word, wrong accent, wrong syllabification, omission of syllables, etc. (c) Omission of words. (d) Insertion of words. (e) Repetition of words or groups of words.
Σελίδα 83 - Later in the series, addition appeared again, but in a more elaborate form. It was here required that a short column of figures be added. The third case of addition consisted in the adding of fractions of like denominators. The fourth case consisted in the addition of a longer column of figures. This differs from short-column addition in the fact that a greater effort of attention is required in order to complete the addition. Addition of fourplace figures, which requires carrying forward from one...
Σελίδα 247 - The directions as to procedure have been for the most part given in the foregoing discussion. The following details may be added: In counting, be sure that a line which is shortened by a picture is counted as a part line. At the end of a paragraph count all lines that are half-lines or more as though they were full lines. If such a line is less than a half-line, neglect it.

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