Moral education : an experimental investigation / by William T. Whitney.

  • Whitney, William T., 1878-
Date:
[1915], ©1915
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Credit: Moral education : an experimental investigation / by William T. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    marked excellent in deportment. Of this number 86 have had excellent religious training, 83 good, 22 fair, 14 poor. Two hundred and sixteen are judged good in deportment. Of this number 84 have had excellent religious training, 84 good, 32 fair, 16 poor. One hun- dred and fifteen fair in deportment; 21 of this number have had excellent religious training, 48 good, 33 fair, and 21 poor. Sixty-four are poor in deportment, 4 have had excellent religious training, 8 good, 21 fair and 31 no religious training. A glance at the table shows a striking characteristic of this grouping of pupils. If a line were drawn diagonally from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand corner of the parallelogram it will be noticed that the pupils group themselves about this diagonal as an axis with the larger groupings at either end. This characteristic is noticeable in all the tables. Table II shows the results for girls, which may be summarized in the same way as Table I. A compari- son of the two tables shows for the various grades a slight increase in number of girls over boys who have received excellent or good religious training and are marked excellent or good in deportment. Quite a per- ceptible decrease is noticeable in the number of girls who are marked fair or poor in deportment. One hun- dred and fifteen boys fair as opposed to 59 girls; 64 boys poor as opposed to 41 girls. The same results are noticeable in all the tables. Table IV shows the result of the correlation of deportment and home train- ing. A comparison of Tables IV and V shows for the same grades and numbers an increase of girls over [ ta]