The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-06-03

School children in ken0Sha beginning
today are submitting to their parents
the records Of interesting tests which
have been made in the public schools
of Kenosha and by the careruT examin-
alton Of these reports the parents of
children may secure good indication
of just what the boy and girl is doing
in school. In relation with the circula-
tion of these records, which are re.
garded as most important by school
leaders, Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, super,
intendent of the city schools, has is
sued the following open letter to the
parents Of the children.
To Parents Of Public School Children:
Children attending the fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the
public schools, will carry to their homes
in the next few days record which,
! hope parents will examine carefully.
I am writing this explanation in order
that these records may be more readily
understood.
You will observe the heading, "Cour-
els Standard Research Tests This is
the report on the four fundamental
operations on the test in arithmetic,
which test we have made in the schools
this year.
The first test was made in October
and the second has just been com
pleted
Children in the grades named were
each provided with four sheets, on each
of which was printed twenty-four ex-
amples in addition, subtraction, multi
plication, and division, respectively.
At a given signal the children began
work They were given eight minutes
for the addition, four minutes for the
subtraction, six minutes for the multi
plication, and eight minutes for the
division.
Answers were than read and the
child marked his own paper, and drew
the lines to express his score. These
were afterwards examined by the super
visor and corrected if not right.
The black dotted line on the score
sheet which your boy or girl will bring
home will tell you the story of the first
trial BY examining it you will find
out just how many he attempted and
how many he got right in each opera
tion in the time given.
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which gives the average score of his
class. BY comparing these two in posi-
ton you will find out whether your
child is above or below the average
Of his class
AS said above, the children were
given second trial in May The eff
feet of the practice during the inter
vening months, is shown by the later
scores, which are expressed on the sheet
by solid lines, the black showing the
personal score, and the red the class
score.
Compare the black dotted line and
the black solid line and note the i'm
provement in rapiditv and accuracy
Also note the Improvement in the class
as a whole, by comparing the red lines
Follow line across the page and
see in which operation your child is the
best. Does the line fall between at
tempts and rights9 Then he is mae.
curate.
DO the lines approach horizontal
If so, accuracy is good. Is the line
well up towards the top of the spaces
If so, he is rapid in computation.
This is sample of what his arith
me tic drill has meant A boy in the
first trial attempted eight examples il
addition and got six right. In the sec
ond trial he attempted twenty three ex
amples in addition and got twenty,
three right. The examples in addition
are columns of nine, three-plate mum
bers.
These Courts Tests are being given
in many school systems, and BY means
of them, superintendent can find out
whether or not the work of his school
system is up to the standard.
Spelling, writing, reading and com
position have also been standardized
The spelling tests are also to be given
These will show whether or not Keno
sha children are doing as well as they
should do whether or not in any
grade they can spell the words which
have come to be considered the words
to be mastered at that stage OF
progress.
The spelling standard has been work
ed out by the Russell Sage Foundation
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