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The percentage of physical and mental defects are doubtless
comparatively small for high school pupils except in the case of
vision.
The facts regarding size of classes were unobtainable.
The pupils are distributed by their ages of entrance from 12 to 20,
with the mode of the distribution at 15. The younger entering pupils
are distinctly more successful in escaping failure. They are also
strikingly more successful in their ability to graduate.
The older pupils who fail have a higher percentage of failure on the
subjects taken.
The first year's record has real prognostic value for pupils persisting
more than three semesters. But 57 per cent of those leaving earlier
have no failures. This includes nearly 60 per cent of all the
non-failing pupils, but less than 32 per cent of the failing ones have
gone that early.
Prediction of failure by subjects is relatively easy and sure, and the
later years seem more productive of this result.
The percentage of failure on the total possibility of failure increases
with the time period up to the seventh semester. The same facts are
true for the graduates when considered alone. Fifty-six per cent of the
failures for the graduates occur after the second year. The longer stay
in school actually begets an increase of failures. The boys and girls
are similarly affected by these factors of prognosis.
REFERENCES:
14. Keyes, C.H. _Progress Through the Grades_, pp. 23, 62.
15. Terman, L.M. _The Measurement of Intelligence_, p. 68.
16. Bronner, A.E. _Psychology of Special Abilities and Disabilities_.
17. Ayres, L.P. "The Effect of Physical Defects on School Progress,"
_Psychological Clinic_, 3:71.
18. Gulick, L.H., Ayres, L.P. _Medical Inspection in the Schools_, p.
194.
19. _Standards of The North Central Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools_.
20. Hall-Quest, A.L., in Johnson's _Modern High School_, p. 270.
21. King, I. _The High School Age_, p. 195.
22. VanDenburg, J.K. _The Elimination of Pupils from Public Secondary
Schools_, p. 113.
23. Slattery, M. _The Girl in Her Teens_, p. 20.
24. Wooley, H.T. "Facts About the Working Children of Cincinnati,"
_Elementary School Teacher_, 14:135.
25. _Report of Commission on Industrial and Technical Education_
(Mass.), 1906, p. 92.
26. Barrows, Alice P. _Report of Vocational Guidance Survey_ (New York
City), Public Education Association, New York City, Bull. No. 9, 1912.
27. Holley, C.E. _The Relationship Between Persistence in School and
Home Conditions_, Fifteenth Yearbook, Pt. II, p. 98.
28. Bliss, D.C. "High School Failures," _Educational Administration and
Supervision_, Vol. III.
29. _Annual Report of Board of Education, Paterson_, 1915.
30. Wood, J.W. "A Study of Failures," _School and Society_, I, 679.
31. Johnson, F.W. "A Study of High School Grades," _School Review_,
19-13.
32. Strayer, G.D., Coffman, L.D., Prosser, C.A. _Report of a Survey of
the School System of St. Paul_, 1917.
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