Author: William Henry PylePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331367796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Excerpt from A Manual for the Mental, and Physical Examination of School Children, Vol. 17 The results of the tests will help the teacher in the classification and gradation of the pupils. This help is not much needed except in the doubtful cases. One often needs to know whether a pupil has failed be cause of lack of effort or lack of ability. The tests will help to answer this question. If a child fails because of lack of ability, he should prob ably not be promoted. If he fails because of lack of effort, he should probably be promoted and an attempt made to get him to do the work of which he is capable. The progress of children through the grades should be in accordance with their ability and with the rapidity of their develop ment. Some children develop much faster than others and can therefore acquire the skill and knowledge of the school subjects much faster than others. The tests will aid in determining the development of the chil dren and should lead to greater economy of time and effort in dealing with them. An accurate knowledge of the child's ability and development will not only be a help in gradation and classification but should also help in the actual teaching. Every bit of information that a teacher can get about a child should be a help in dealing with that child. Studies made by the author indicate that there is a Wide difference of ability possessed by the children ordinarily found in the same grade. It will usually be found that there are children in the third grade with as great ability as that of some pupils in the high school. A more careful system of gradation will lead to more nearly equal ability in the same grade and should make better teaching possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.