Abstract
The Department of Educational Investigation and Measure ment has given geography tests in the Boston public schools twice: the first time in 1914 and the second time in 1919. The 1914 testing,1 for which the questions were selected with great care, was mostly limited to the ?ighth grade. The tests in that year were given to fourteen eighth-grade classes, four third-year high-school classes, and to the freshman class in the normal school. The subject-matter of the tests was confined to a few of the most important countries of the world, viz., the United States and the countries of Europe. The results seemed to indicate a wide dis tribution of effort on the part of the teachers. As a means of directly improving the character of the instruction, the geography course of study was revised, minimum essentials were defined, and a more thorough course in geography was introduced into the curriculum of the Boston normal school. The 1919 testing was more extensive. Its scope is indicated in Table I.
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