A Comparison of the Achievement of High School and University Students in Certain Tasks in Chemistry

Abstract

Near the close of the school year of 1919-1920, a test of abil ity to perform the more or less mechanical operations of chem istry was given to a large number of high-school and university students. Twenty high schools participated, fourteen being in medium or small Minnesota cities and the remaining six being outside of Minnesota. Two groups of university freshmen were represented : ( 1 ) those who had taken one year of chemistry in the university, but who had not taken chemistry in high school ; and (2) those who had taken one year of chemistry in the Uni versity and who, in addition, had offered chemistry as an entrance subject. The first group consisting of 57 students is designated in the tables below as U19 the second group (168 students) is designated as U2a. Table I shows the number of schools which used the test and the number of students who took it.