Abstract

These items were used because they were urged by a committee of graduate students in a university class in secondary-school administration as the most desirable items to be marked on a highschool pupil's report. The results therefore provide a comparison of pupil and teacher preference regarding the items in question. They obviously do not indicate all the items which pupils might suggest if they were given the opportunity. Table I shows the preferences expressed. The column headed Composite indicates that 65.1 per cent of the pupils expressed a desire to have preparation marked on their reports, etc. A study of the table reveals some interesting facts. In no school does the ranking of the several items agree entirely with the composite ranking; the instances of agreement vary from five in the case of the Eastern High School to none at all in the case of the Lincoln School. Apparently, the preferences are to a great extent responses to elements in the school environment to which the pupils are accustomed. Considering the rankings assigned by the boys and by

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