Part 2 (1/2)

Table I reads: the boys had 20 failures and the girls had 19 failures in the first see of thirteen; in the second see of thirteen, the boys had 2 failures and the girls 6 For each seirls There is a total of 17,960 failures listed in this table In addition to this nuraduates The semesters were frequently completed by such pupils but the records were left incomplete Their previous records and their prospects of further partial or complete failure seem to justify an estirades as either tentative or actual but unrecorded failures Therefore we virtually have 1,070 other failures belonging to these pupils which are not included in Table I Accordingly, since the number can only be estimated, the fact that they are not incorporated in that table suggests that the infor less than a full statement of the school failures for these pupils In the distribution of the totals for ages, the mode appears plainly at 16, but with an evident skewness toward the upper ages The failures for the years 16, 17, and 18, when added together, form 681 per cent of the total failures If those for 15 years are also included, the result is 86 per cent of the total Of the total failures, 657 per cent are found in the first two years (11,801 out of the total of 17,960) But the really striking fact is that 343 per cent of the failures occur after the end of the first two years, after 522 per cent of the pupils are gone, and with other hundreds leaving in each succeeding sehth In Table II we have siraduate

TABLE II

THE DISTRIBUTION OF FAILURES ACCORDING TO THE AGES AND THE SEMESTERS OF THEIR OCCURRENCE FOR THE GRADUATING PUPILS

AGES SEMESTERS 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 TOTALS

1 B 0 66 84 60 5 2 3220 G 4 68 123 68 23 4 0290 510 2 B 0 30 95 96 41 3 2267 G 1 25 119 121 30 11 2309 576 3 B 0 6 108 98 71 22 1 3309 G 1 15 101 158 78 20 5 0378 687 4 B4 54 157 107 36 6 0364 G1 45 186 143 51 7 2435 799 5 B1 10 82 142 82 17 4 3341 G0 9 145 187 88 22 9 0460 801 6 B4 34 158 139 32 9 2378 G2 70 235 178 40 13 1539 917 7 B1 0 10 115 140 65 4 4 1 340 G0 2 7 130 187 69 19 0 0 414 754 8 B0 31 122 65 25 2245 G2 45 150 95 37 2331 576 9 B0 24 23 13 161 G4 32 40 24 0100 161 10 B 1 11 5 320 G 3 12 6 122 42 Summary B108 355 537 670 571 225 63 15 1 2545 G 6 109 401 757 875 724 292 110 4 0 3278 5823

[Footnote: In the facts which are involved and in thethem, this table is similar to Table I The es is at 17 in this table Further reference will be made to both Tables I and II in later chapters of this study (See pages 36, 37, 41, 42)]

A further analysis of the failures is here made in reference to the number of pupils and the number of failures each

TABLE III

A DISTRIBUTION OF FAILING PUPILS ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF FAILURES PER PUPIL, IN EACH SEMESTER

NO OF SEMESTERS TOTALS FAILURES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 B 459 430 375 352 271 221 157 113 22 11 2411 G 561 535 428 421 328 261 167 123 35 9 2868 --------------------------- 325 5279

2 B 271 242 211 206 149 144 79 68 19 4 1393 G 271 253 238 204 177 142 127 84 17 6 1519 --------------------------- 349 2912

3 B 144 106 81 73 59 60 45 27 6 2 603 G 207 103 81 75 75 83 52 38 20 3 737 --------------------------- 35 1340

4 B 83 39 33 30 27 32 10 10 1 1 266 G 95 50 38 35 27 39 19 19 3 0 325 --------------------------- 318 591

5 B 6 3 5 8 7 8 7 2 046 G 3 2 6 5 1 10 6 5 139 --------------------------- 553 85

6 B3 3 0 1 18 G

--------------------------- 25 8

Tot B 963 820 708 672 513 466 299 220 48 18 4727 G 1137 943 791 740 608 535 371 269 76 18 5488 10,215

Table III tells us that 459 boys and 561 girls have one failure each in the first seh school work; 271 boys and the sairls have two failures in the first semester, and so on, for the ten semesters and for as many as six failures per pupil The failures represented by these pupils give a total of 17,960 A distribution of the total failures per pupil, and the facts relative thereto, will be considered in Chapter IV of this study

The above distribution of Table III is repeated here in Table IV, so far as it relates to the failing graduates only

TABLE IV

A DISTRIBUTION OF THE FAILING PUPILS WHO GRADUATE, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF FAILURES PER PUPIL IN EACH SEMESTER