The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-09
MOSCOW SCHOOL
STANDING HIGH
LEADS SEVEN REPRESENTATIVE
STATE SCHOOLS AS PREPAR-
ATORY INSTITUTION
Group OF 50 Students in University
Make Average Grades of AS
During Past Five Years


school ranks among the best in the
state, according to some interesting
facts brought out in a statement, pre-
pared at the request of the school
board by Phi Soulen, of the department
of education of the University of idaho
from the records of the students. en-
tering that institution over period of
five years. The statement shows that
for a period of five years, a group of
SO students made average grades in
their university courses of 4.48, COM
pared with average grades of 4.43
made by students from seven other
high schools in the state.
Mr. Soulen's letter, which was read
at the meeting of the school board last
night, is in part as follows.
Beginning with the Moscow high
school graduates of June, 1911, l have
selected those who have matriculated
as university freshmen each year for
period of five years The average grade
made by each student during his first
college year was used as an index of
the preparation he had received.
"In like manner, a second group of
grades was made of students matri-
culating into the university from other
Idaho high schools for the same years.
They included graduates from seven
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state. The group of names thus OBJ
tanned was not selected, but taken in
alphabetical order for each school in
order to secure representative stu
dents as we'll as representative
schools. Fifty-nine graduates from the
Moscow high school were thus COM
pared with SO graduates from other
schools, both groups covering a period
of five years proceeding June, 1916"
An itemized statement appended by
Mr.. Soulen shows that the greatest
showing was made by Moscow stu
dents in the years 1s14-15, when in
group of II students an average grade
of 4.93 was maintained compared with
a grade of 4.05 made by II students
from other high schools. This shows
a marked improvement in the high
schools facilities for preparing stu
dents over other years, when the stu
dents from other schools led in grades,
although in most instances the differ
ence was not great
Student No. 1 from the Moscow
school during the years 1911-12, finish
ed with an average grade of 4.32, which
was 05 less than the grade made by
The students from another school with
whom his record was compared In
a group of II for the years 1912-13,
results were: Moscow, All; other
schools, 423. Ten students of the
class of IA made average grades of
AS; other schools, 4.S1 In a group
of 20 students of the present term the
Moscow average is 1872; other schools,
442.
''It might be charged" Mr.. Soulen's
letter explains. "that the conclusions
reached from this study were open to
criticism on the ground that a major
ity from one or the other groups reg |
istered in some particular college in
which high or low grades prevailed. |
A study of the courses under which
both groups registered shows quite !
uniform distribution of both groups |
among the various colleges, and the |
further fact that no college deviates
very much from the normal or average
in the matter of grades.