64 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [16:2— Feb., 1920 



These cards were made up in duplicate so that each pupil could 

 have the cards. They were laid face down on the pupil's desk 

 together with the following blank : 



You are given two cards on which are mounted certain objects and pictures. 

 Do not turn the cards over until you have filled in the following blank: 



Your name Boy or Girl Your grade in 



this school .How long have you been in this school, i yr., 2 yrs., 



3 yrs., 4 yrs., 5 yrs., 6 yrs., 7 yrs., 8 yrs. Look at the clock and enter here 



the time at which you begin now to look at the pictures and objects 



Turn the cards over and answer the following: 



I . Is the twig of a tree. What tree? 



^ 2. Is the pod of a tree and 3. the twig from the same tree. 



^ What tree? 



4. What kind of seeds are in this bottle? 



5. What kind of seeds are in this bottle? 



6. What is the name of this rock? 



7. What is the name of this stuff? 8. What kind of 



tree is this? i^ What kind of tree is this? 



10. What is the name of this bird? 11. What is this 



object? 12. What is the name of this butterfly? 



13. What plant does this come from? 14. What is 



the name of this plant? 15. What kind of animals 



are these 16. What is the name of this bird? 



17. What is this animal? 18. What is the name of 



the animal? 19. What is this stuff? 20. What 



is this animal? 21. What is the animal and what is it 



doing? 



When you have finished enter here the time when you finish 



Thirty-four pupils were given the test in the fourth grade and 



thirty-one in the fifth grade. The average score for the fourth 



grade was 7.88 points out of a possible 21, the average for the fifth 



grade was 7.95 points. The total points for each question for the 



sixty-five pupils is as follows: 



I o 7 14 12 5 17 26.5 



2 and 3 1.5 8 28 13 3 18 16.5 



4 24 9 29 14 26 19 46 



5 16 10 28.5 15 63 20 61 



6 31 II 30.5 16 9 21 54 



22 o 



The highest score of any pupil in the fourth grade was 12.5 



points, the lowest 3. The highest score in the fifth grade was 1 1.5 



points, the lowest 4. To see if there was any difference between 



the pupils who had been in this school for some time and those 



recently enrolled, the average ntunber of points scored by those 



who had been in the school three years or less was compared to 



those who had been in the school four years or more. In the 



fourth grade the former group scored on an average 7.45 points, in 



the latter 8.62 points. In the fifth grade the score for each group 



was 8. 



