Educational measurementsMacmillan, 1916 - 202 pages |
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accuracy accurate answer approximately ARITHMETIC-Test assigned by teachers average Ayres scale carelessly dressed gentleman carriage and held COMPARISON comprehension correct correctly Deephaven DEFECTS determined different teachers distribution draw a line Education English entire estimates fact factors Fahrenheit formal grammar girl given Grade Composition grade was 70 grammatical scales high school Ichabod Crane instructors John vanished Latin lightly into Warren's lower marking scale marks assigned mathematics mean variation MEASUREMENT OF ABILITY mechanical errors MERITS method minutes Name School normal distribution number of words paper paragraph passing grade points principles probable error punctuation put a cross range Reading Test ruled paper samples SCALE FOR HANDWRITING scale for measuring scale of five School University schools whose passing selected sentence structure Series A Prepared small card standard curves standard scores Starch stepped lightly Test for Grades theme thermometer Thorndike scale tion Value VOCABULARY TEST Warren's carriage
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Page 45 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 141 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 21 - ... labor of the day was over, he still loved to go apart and gaze and meditate upon the Great Stone Face. According to their idea of the matter, it was a folly, indeed, but pardonable, inasmuch as Ernest was industrious, kind, and neighborly, and neglected no duty for the sake of indulging this idle habit. They knew not that the Great Stone Face had become a teacher to him, and that the sentiment which was expressed in it would enlarge the young man's heart, and fill it with wider and deeper sympathies...
Page 22 - To an American visiting Europe, the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative. The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions.
Page 93 - Maggie's eyes had begun to sparkle and her cheeks to flush, - she was really beginning to instruct the gypsies, and gaining great influence over them. The gypsies themselves were not without amazement at this talk, though their attention was divided by the contents of Maggie's pocket, which the friend at her right hand had by this time emptied without attracting her notice. "Is that where you live, my little lady?" said the old woman, at the mention of Columbus. "Oh, no!
Page 21 - The years went on, and Ernest ceased to be a boy. He had grown to be a young man now. He attracted little notice from the other inhabitants of the valley ; for they saw nothing remarkable in his way of life, save that, when the labor of the day was over, he still loved to go apart and gaze and meditate upon tha Great Stone Face.
Page 21 - ... on the defaced example of other human lives. Neither did Ernest know that the thoughts and affections which came to him so naturally, in the fields and at the fireside, and wherever he communed with himself, were of a higher tone than those which all men shared with him. A simple soul — simple as when his mother first taught him the old prophecy — he beheld the marvellous features beaming adown the valley, and still wondered that their human counterpart was so long in making his appearance....
Page 18 - But the more Midas loved his daughter, the more did he desire and seek for wealth. He thought, foolish man ! that the best thing he could possibly do for this dear child would be to bequeath her the immensest pile of yellow, glistening coin, that had ever been heaped together since the world was made.
Page 20 - Bank-bills had never been heard of. There was not money enough of any kind, in many parts of the country, to pay the salaries of the ministers; so that they sometimes had to take quintals of fish, bushels of corn, or cords of wood, instead of silver or gold.
Page 18 - ONCE upon a time, there lived a very rich man, and a king besides, whose name was Midas ; and he had a little daughter, whom nobody but myself ever heard of, and whose name I either never knew, or have entirely forgotten.