Part 10 (1/2)

THE DISPOSITION MADE OF THE SCHOOL FAILURES

Repeat School Exaents' Discon or No Repeat Failures Subject Spec Exam's Substitution Repet and or Exam Exam

8348 B 3695 821 1333 2471 259 231 9612 G 5001 1025 1752 1929 249 344 Per Cent of Total 484 103 172 245 28 32

It is obvious froes that school practice puts an inclusive faith in the repetition of the subject, as 484 per cent of all the failures are referred to this one reh one school made practically no use of this means (see section 5 of this chapter) We shall proceed to find how effectively it operates and how much this faith is warranted by the results The cases above designated as both repeating and taking examination (32 per cent) have been counted twice, and their percentage es in order to give 100 per cent

1 REPEtitION AS A REMEDY FOR FAILURES

We already knopupils repeat the subject of failure, but the success attending such repetition is entitled to further attention Accordingly, the grades received in the 8,696 repetitions are presented here

GRADES SECURED IN THE SUBJECTS REPEATED

GRADES Total Repetitions A B C D INC

3695 Boys 63 547 1863 1003 219 5001 Girls 83 724 2510 1337 347 ----------------- Per Cent of Total 17 147 503 333

Less than 2 per cent of the repeaters secure A's, while only about 1 in 6 ever secures either an A or a B The first three are passing grades, with values as explained in Chapter I, and D represents failure Of the repeated subjects 333 per cent result in either a D or an unfinished status It is a fair assurade usually bore pretty certain prospects of being a failing grade if completed, and it is so treated here There is a difference of less than 1 per cent in the failures assigned to boys and girls for the repeated subjects

The hope was entertained in the original plan of this study to secure several other sorts of information about the repeaters, but these later proved to be unobtainable The influence of repeating with the sae of teachers in the same subject, the comparative facts for the repetition withresults for the different sizes of classes, and the apparent effect of supervised study of soht for in the records available; but the schools were not able to provide any definite and complete information of the sorts here specified

_a Size of Schedule and Results of Repeating_

It would see pupils ere pery would want to take one or more extra subjects to balance the previous loss of credit due to failure Then it becomes important at once for the administrative head to knohether the proportion of failures bears a definite relationshi+p to the size of the pupil's schedule of subjects A normal schedule for most purposes and for e, four subjects or twenty weekly hours In this study the schedule which each individual school claier schedules being considered extra size and all smaller ones reduced For instance, in one of the schools five subjects are considered a norh they totaled 24 points, which is not usual But in the other schools a nore from 18 to 22 points irrespective of those carried in the subjects outside of the classification included in this study; while above 22 points is an extra schedule and below 18 a reduced schedule in the same sense as above For the most part this meant that five or more of such subjects form an extra schedule, and that three form a reduced schedule In this manner all the repeated subjects are classed as part of a reduced, a normal, or an extra sized schedule as follows

SIZE OF SCHEDULES FOR PUPILS TAKING REPEATED SUBJECTS

Total Reduced Normal Extra

3695 Boys 132 1762 1801 5001 Girls 164 2684 2153

Per Cent of Total 34 511 455

This distribution indicates that relatively few of the pupils take a reduced schedule in repeating For the succeeding corades of extra schedule pupils, those having a norether

GRADES FOR SUBJECTS REPEATED BY FAILING PUPILS WHO CARRIED A REDUCED OR NORMAL SCHEDULE

Total Repetitions A B C D

1894 Boys 34 259 894 541 166 2848 Girls 44 361 1319 840 284 ---------------- Per Cent of Total 16 131 467 386