Studies in Child Welfare (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...and evaluations; the manual contains merely the specific directions for the use References. For the purpose of this report, it is necessary to assume that the reader has access to the Manual of Instructions, which is furnished free with the Measures of Musical Talent or may be obtained upon request from the Columbia Graphophone Company, New York-and to the author's "Psychology of Musical Talent" (Silver, Burdett & Co 1919), in which the whole theory of the measurement of musical talent is explained and on which the tests are based. of the phonograph records; and this report presents some data on the use of these tests in the school. With such "division of labor" there falls to this report essentially the following: sample of record with explanation of items; a grouping scale with suggestions for its use; comparison of boys and girls; comparison of different schools; survey of several recommendations bearing on procedure. SAMPLE OF REPORTS WITH EXPLANATIONS Table I A and B is a sample of the final report as left on file. It represents the eighth grade pupils in the Elmwood School, and may be regarded as a fair sample of a natural set of records for a grade. In this table the pupils are represented by numbers, the girls, I A, by odd and the boys, I B, by even numbers. Since material of a personal nature should not be made public, the names of the children, which in the original report occupy a space after the age, are omitted from this printed report. The age given is that of their nearest birthday. The Percentile Rank. Then follow the records for the five measures, each expressed in terms of percentile rank, a common unit, namely, the rank in a normal community of the kind represented; in this case, eighth grade children. The scale is...