The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-02-01
Ardmore Schools Adopt Rating System.


in the Department of Vocational Guid-
ance which will be Of special interest
10 every patron Of the school is the
rating system recently naugurated.
This system is the same as is being
used with great success in the large
industries over the United States.
Every pupil in the Ardmore schools
from the sixth grade TO the graduating
class has been rated by his teachers;
every teacher in the school system has
been rated by their respective prn-
cipal ana these ratings have been re-
vised by the superintendent; ana
every principal has been rated by
the superintendent during the last
two weeks.
Henry u. Rinsland, vocational cour-
selor Of the schools, on being asked
about this rating system said: II need
10 know definitely ANA exactly what
each teacher thinks Of each pupil "hc
teaches. ana / need 20 know this "y'
cry year of the pupils school life trorn
the sixth grade until the year he l.
graduated. If | should ask one Of
the teachers, What do you think oc
Johnnie and she would reply. "Why
bo is pretty good fellow, be gets
along fairly well in his studies, he-
hnycs pretty WELL and all in all is
IL very nice boy | wonder If she
Knows cxaclly what she is talking
about do not Those words "prct.
,,. ,,ood fairl,. we'll. pretty well, Vrrv
u,c," nav mean anything. | don't
I.p,w nsl what they mean. and /
to,bt If anyone ciso does. We have
s,fnnlv --opucd this unsclnufic guess
work method .Yd adopted defiaitc
,,st.rl nov bru,s used 'u many h.g
,n5,e,re- and few 5.g uu'vcrs.t-
i,e.
.r{ avn, of our senior. ao ;o ca
u.... Institute of Technology. ana
t,o,- scvcra! VINO are. our high
e.booI prircipai win have to RATE
,n..o voilnc people, and when they
cnma pofor. the dean in that n7;i- /
tu,.on thcv viii ha again rated. These +.
r,,iras partially determine their IN.
;rarrc into the college. We are stint |
,l., heating some Of the universities /
at thcir own game. Just the othrr /
d1y received the rating scale used |
j,,. ,ho Dennison Manufacturing Com /
,.1tv the company everybody knows
o4 Inc Tag Manufacturers Il com /,
many employing thousands of people, /
one of the really big Industrial plants !
of this country. and their rating scale /.
Is almost ike the one we use in 'ur /
schools I'm fact Mr.. Philip j. Rciley /
their emplovment manager and l
hoyo built our scale on the same !
nsvcholorjc1l princplcs."
The scale was explained 10y Mr. I
pipsland as being Human Yard /.
stick" measuring five factors of clcn =
nersou. lst. Physicm Qualities; 2nd,
lr;nllirancc: 3rd. Leadership; 4th, F.
pcrsonohty and Character; and Sta,
General value as "A student or Teach
er The scale ne continued is M g
nm hv taking each one Of these iyc
elements into consideration separate.
" and considering the person from
only one quality at a time. For ~.
omule. First taking Physical Quail /.
itv we list five people we know ac-
c.rJiug TO their physical qualities
n,acing the very superior first, the (
very inferior last, the average in .
fine middle and the other two high ,
or low as we believe them to be. We .
do this for the other four elements .
10 be measured and these five groups .
Of five people each make up ur .
scale Now when we wish to rate q /
nupn we simply consider his physical I.
quality first and see which one OF .
o,lr five pcoplc he nearest resemble.
IN this quality alone; We care nothing
about his brains or character, just
the physical side of his being. If he
COMPARES most closely TO the middle
person we rate lin .. And so on, each
quality at a time assigning the mum
her values. Is for highest, - for
high etc. Now, one teachers rating
of each pupil is not enough, all teach
ers who teach each pupil rate the
pupil and this Is done every yca'.
Al the end of the six years, which