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Title: Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on School Inquiry
Subjects: School organization and management
Publisher: City of New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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uctions,teachers mistakes in scoring, etc., schools and classes were selected hav-ing a total register of 40,000. The actual number of children to whomthe test was finally given was 33,350, and the resulting number of com-pleted record sheets was 28,669, distributed as shown in Table III, p. 417. Table IV—Distribution of Schools and Number of Classes Tested in Each Manhattan Bronx Brooklyn Queens Richmond SchoolNumber Number ofClasses SchoolNumber Number ofClasses SchoolNumber Number ofClasses SchoolNumber Number ofClasses SchoolNumber Number ofClasses No. 3 9 10b & G 11 232436 43 46 52 56 58 65b 65g 69 79 104 132 159 166 190 18182216251224 24 325 1610161323131427181816 No.16914263536MorrisHighMottAv.Annex i 16183010101515 18 16 No.45 7 8 64 72 84b 84g 909297105110132144149160164 11 291010302221 11 62766241227251523 No. 1 6 ! 1819 No.1 14 11 12 Total No. 21 380 9 148 18 315 2 37 2 23 ■ Total number of schools, 52. Total number of classes, 903. t COURTIS TESTS IN ARITHMETIC 419
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Fig. XI 420 EDUCATIONAL INVESTIGATION Of the total number but 27,171 records are included in the generaltabulations. The difference—1,307 records—is due to the rejection ofthe records of one entire school,^ the exclusion of records from Eclasses, and of such other records as were found in the tabulations tocontain impossible scores. (For instance, a score of 160 in a test inwhich there were but 120 examples.) The basis for the selection of schools, while largely geographical,was practically a chance selection, as it was made without other knowl-edge of the schools than size, number of children and classes, and type—boys, girls, or mixed. In certain schools, every grade was tested; inothers, only selected grades. The schools chosen and the number ofclasses in each are shown in Table IV, p. 418. The geographical distribution of the schools is shown in Fig. XI. Relations with Principals A list of the schools selected was sent to Superintendent Maxwellon March 11. A letter was at on

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