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or special cases not picked out by inspection may now be 

 presented by the teacher ; the selected cases are kept and 

 the other children are dismissed to the classroom. 



' Each of the selected cases is then reviewed individually 

 and described on a schedule form ; the teachers' report con- 

 cerning the child is taken down or filled in by them after- 

 wards. Occasionally some detailed inquiry concerning a 

 child may be made, or some brief mental examination may 

 be desirable, but as a rule no questions are asked of the 

 child. 



' This method works smoothly and uniformly with a mini- 

 mum of trouble to the teachers and pupils. The teachers 

 almost universally acknowledged that the dull children had 

 been selected by inspection, and very few were subsequently 

 presented by them.' 



This gives, however, so little information as to the classi- 

 fication of intelligence that the following additional quota- 

 tions must be given : 



' The teachers' report as to mental ability was added to 

 the record of each child registered, and those stated to be 

 below the average in ability for school work were registered 

 as " Dull ".' [Report, p. 13, and Jour. R. Stat. Soc, 1896, 

 p. 126.) 



* The children reported by the teachers as mentally dull 

 or below the average in ability for schoolwork were mostly 

 selected by the signs observed before the teachers presented 

 any who were passed over by the observer, and the teachers 

 generally acknowledged that the dull children had been so 

 selected.' [Report, p. 45.) 



' The teachers give their report on the working power of 

 each child noted in a fourth column. (Jour. R. Stat. Soc, 

 1893, p. 72.) 



' ** Dull Cases " are '* children reported by the teacher as 



