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selected cities. The general impression which one secures 

 from these diagrams is that results of a widely different char- 

 acter are secured. City 8 makes an unusually good record 

 and City 10 is uniformly low. The irregular progress which 

 is made by some cities such as City 5 and City 6 leads one to 

 question the consistency of reading instruction in some 



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Diagram 9. Average Quality Scores in Silent Reading for Indiana 

 AND Two Selected Cities; also Highest and Lowest 

 Scores for Each Grade 



schools. It has only been in recent years that questions have 

 been raised in regard to the achievement of pupils in silent 

 reading. The investigations which have been made recently 

 are raising a large number of questions in regard to present 

 methods of instruction and in regard to the changes which 

 should be introduced in public schools in order to improve 

 the quality of the results. Diagrams 9 and 10 reveal the 

 presence of similar problems in the cities of Indiana. A 

 limited number of constructive suggestions concerning silent 



