Manual of mental and physical tests : a book of directions compiled with special reference to the experimental study of school children in the laboratory or classroom / by Guy Montrose Whipple.
- Guy Montrose Whipple
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Manual of mental and physical tests : a book of directions compiled with special reference to the experimental study of school children in the laboratory or classroom / by Guy Montrose Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lent to estimating quality of work in terms of average number ot words per sentence, and this simpler method may be used for the qualitative score. Typical Results.—(1) The following are selected single sen- tences reported by Miss Sharp for the first test: 1. “Decrees are made for citizens, not for horses.” (The connection of the words here is simple and mechanical.) 2. “That stalwart citizen on the great gray horse is a man to be trusted with the decree.” (This implies a concrete situation.) 3. “All the well-to-do citizens of the village, each mounted on a horse, rode through the streets, proclaiming their dissatisfaction with the new decree.” (A situation is here more fully outlined.) (2) The following is a full set of sentences written by a grad- uate student, in 5 min., for the first assignment: 1. A decree was posted that the citizen should not abuse the horse. 2. The horse of the citizen was sold by official decree. 3. “Here,” said the citizen, “is the horse mentioned in the decree.” 4. Early in Arabian history, a decree raised to a higher caste, a citizen who owned a horse, but later, possession was sufficient for better standing, and the law was not needed. 5. If a citizen keep a horse, it is a decree that he use it kindly. 6. “What a funny decree,” exclaimed the citizen, when he read of the horse sun-bonnet law. 7. The decree was signed that the horse had kicked the citizen, and there- fore the injured man could collect damages from the owner of the animal. 8. “Time is up,” cried the citizen, stop-watch in hand, “I hereby decree that you write the word horse and stop at once.” [Faulty on account of the use of ‘decree’ as a verb.] (3) The following represent groups of sentences written for the author by two college students (selected at random from a num- ber of papers) for the fourth set of verbs. The relatively greater variety of the second group is clear. A. 1. “I saw the book and tried to find a place in which to throw it.” 2. “I threw the cat in the creek and turned to see if anyone had found me out.” 3. “I see that I can find nothing to throw at him.” 4. “You see, it was this way, I simply found the hatchet and threw it.” B. 1. “The child saw a horse, found a stone and threw it at him.” 2. “When you find a clover, see if it has four leaves: if not, throw it away.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28083179_0463.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
