Footnote 13:  Thorndike, Origin of Man, p. 146.

Footnote 14:  Racial Differences in Mental Traits, pp. 177 and 181.

Footnote 15:  Thorndike, Educational Psychology, Briefer Course, p. 374.

Footnote 16:  Thorndike, Educational Psychology, Vol.  III, p. 304.

Footnote 17:  Moral Principles in Education, p. 17.

Footnote 18:  For a fuller discussion of this topic see next chapter.

Footnote 19:  For a discussion of these scales see Chapter XV.

Footnote 20:  The Courtis Tests, Series B, for Measuring the Achievements of Children in the Fundamentals of Arithmetic, can be secured from Mr. S.A.  Curtis, 82 Eliot Street, Detroit, Mich.

Footnote 21:  Measurements of Some Achievements in Arithmetic, by
Clifford Woody, published by the Teachers College Bureau of
Publications, Columbia University, 1916.

Footnote 22:  Reasoning Test in Arithmetic, by C.W.  Stone, published by the Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1916.

Footnote 23:  A Scale for Handwriting of Children, by E.L.  Thorndike, published by the Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Footnote 24:  A scale derived by Dr. Leonard P. Ayres of the Russell Sage Foundation is also valuable for measuring penmanship, and can be purchased from the Russell Sage Foundation.

Footnote 25:  Copies of the Spelling Scale can be secured from the
Russell Sage Foundation, New York, for five cents a copy.

Footnote 26:  A Scale for the Measurement of Quality in English Composition, by Milo B. Hillegas, published by the Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Footnote 27:  The Harvard-Newton Scale for the Measurement of English
Composition, published by the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Footnote 28:  Scale Alpha.  For Measuring the Understanding of Sentences, by E.L.  Thorndike, published by the Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Scales for measuring the rate of silent reading and oral reading have been derived by Dr. W.S.  Gray, of the University of Chicago, and by Dr. F.J.  Kelly, of the University of Kansas.  Reference to the use of Dr. Gray’s scale will be found in Judd’s Measuring Work of the Schools, one of the volumes of the Cleveland survey, published by the Russell Sage Foundation.  Dr. Kelly’s test, called The Kansas Silent Reading Test, can be had from the Emporia, Kansas, State Normal School.

Footnote 29:  Completion Test Language Scales, by M.R.  Trabue, published by the Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Footnote 30:  The student who is not interested in the statistical methods involved in measuring with precision the achievements of pupils may omit the remainder of this chapter.

Footnote 31:  This explanation of the method of finding the median was prepared for one of the classes in Teachers College by Dr. M.R.  Trabue.