611. The above chart represents the condition existing in the sixth year classes of a certain system of schools. The course covers nine years, including a “connecting grade."

1. What can you say of children represented by the figures (a) on the right-hand side of the vertical line? (b) below the heavy horizontal line? (c) in each of the four quarters? (6)

2. What difference exists between "over age" and "retardation?" Is a repeater necessarily a laggard? (6) 3. What practical measures are indicated for the children in the lower right-hand quarter of the chart?

(6)

612. Assume throughout a large school a very high percentage of non-promotions from Grade 1A in a given

term.

1. Give some indication as to how to find the cause (i. e., data you would collate, etc.). (8)

2. What, according to the best available data, are the probable causes? (4)

3. Suggest remedies according to the several probable causes. (8)

613. "Any scheme of pupil government requires the expense of a large amount of supervisory energy by principal and teachers; the chief, if not the sole, practical income from such a scheme is a monitorial supervision of the school territory outside the classroom. Question, Does the income exceed the expense?"-Perry.

Discuss this position. (12)

614. Give some account of the present movement toward measuring accurately the results of instruction by standardized tests, describing and criticizing the Courtis and the Binet tests. (15)

615. "To develop control of the feelings and emotions is an important direction of will culture." Outline the course of such development, indicating basic principles. (15)

616. Explain briefly the meaning of the following terms and indicate their significance for the school principal (or assistant to principal). (20)

1. Minus distance.

2. Scoliosis.

3. Physiological Age.

4. Vocational adjustment.

5. Cretinism.

PRINCIPALS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 1909.
FOR WOMEN.

617. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of group work in reference to the following:

1. Reading-Grade 5A.

2. Penmanship-Grade 3A.

In the discussion assume that the class contains forty pupils and that the teacher has no assistant; also indicate the "seat work" or "busy work" of the group or groups not reciting. (20)

618. Make a topical outline of an article on School Punishments. The outline should show your development of the topic; it should state the principles promulgated; and it should mention the practical bearings and the limitations of these principles. (20)

619. Name the supplementary activities which may advantageously be organized in a city elementary school. State the advantages and describe briefly the organization of each activity assuming any given set of conditions. (15)

620. 1. State explicitly the several duties of a principal with respect to the prevention or avoidance of personal accidents to teachers or pupils and the treatment of remediable physical defects. (10)

2. State explicitly the duties of a principal upon the occurrence of a personal accident. Cite an actual instance known to you. (5)

621. Briefly characterize several types of inefficient teachers and state the observable marks of each type. Describe a method of dealing with each type. (15)

622. Taking each of three of the following topics in turn, condense into a paragraph of about 10 lines the chief practical points (i. e. principles, methods, suggestions that you would make regarding it). (15)

1. Cretins.

2. School decoration.

3. Stubbornness of girls.

4. Parents' meetings.

PRINCIPAL IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 1906.

623. Describe four actual or proposed systems of properly grading elementary schools (6) and state the specific merit claimed for each system and the objections to it. (6)

624. Describe two systems designed to bring about self government of pupils. (6) Criticise with reasons each system. (8)

625. Describe under three heads, school organization, subjects of instruction, discipline, proper treatment of backward children.

626. 1. State the physiological conditions of fatigue.

2. Describe four signs of fatigue. (4)

(4)

3. State four ways of preventing or relieving fatigue.

(4)

627. Discuss the question of home study in the elementary school, including the Principal's duty in regard to that study.

628. What considerations should guide a Principal in judging the work of (a) Teacher of German (5), (b) Teacher of Cooking. (5)

629. The teacher often is confronted in the school room with an abnormal type of will. Nineteen times out of twenty it is best for the teacher to apperceive the case as one of neural pathology rather than as one of moral culpability. (Condensed from James.)

1. Explain the italicized expression.

2. Criticise the statement.

3. Tell with reasons what should be the aim and the procedure of the teacher in a specific case.

630. The syllabus for history and civics for grade 5B calls for the provisions of the compulsory education law and the duties of citizenship regarding it.

1. What chief points should be presented in carrying out this work?

2. How may Principal act in this matter?

PRINCIPAL IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

631. Explain, with reference to two subjects, the means to be used by a principal to discover the progress made during the term (a) by a class (5); (b) by an individual pupil (4); (c) describe some objectionable tests of progress, and give reasons why they are objectionable. (5)