The Cleveland Survey Tests in Arithmetic in the Miami Valley

Abstract

Valley in southwestern Ohio. To be more specific, there were represented seven city and village systems and all the rural schools of one county and those of one of the several supervision districts of another county. The purpose in giving the tests was to find out the quality of work done along abstract lines (i) in the several systems individually, (2) in all the city and village schools as compared with all the one-room rural schools, and (3) in the city, village, and rural schools as compared with the Cleveland schools. The tests were given under the direction of Professor W. S. Guiler, of the Teachers' College of Miami University, and the papers were scored and the results compiled by the graduating class of that institution. About three thousand papers were obtained, quite evenly divided between town and rural schools. The reason why there was not a larger number of papers from the town schools is that the tests were given to representative schools in the larger places only. It was found impossible on account of limitations of time and labor to give them to all the schools of these systems. The results obtained are indicated in Table I. The first score in each set is the median for the Cleveland schools. The second is the score of the city and village schools, and the third that of the rural schools participating in this survey. Set A.-The children of the city and village schools have made a good start in simple addition in the fourth grade. There is considerable improvement up to the eighth grade, however, and the rate of progress is quite consistent, which is contrary to the findings in Cleveland. Village and city schools make as good a score in the