Rural eighth-grade children scored a higher average percent than city children in every branch tested, in both reasoning and mechanical question groups¶
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q2 i? Children from country schools received a higher average percent in every branch, in both the reasoning and the mechanical question groups. → Walter R. Miles; W. S. Smiley 1915
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Walter R. Miles; W. S. Smiley 1915¶
Walter R. Miles; W. S. Smiley. (1915). Communications and Discussions, The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://books.google.com
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Examination study in Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, History, and Spelling given to eighth-grade B Class pupils, with returns from 211 grade children and 177 country children analyzed separately by sex. Rural children scored higher in every branch; no effect size is printed.
"When the results were compared it was found that the children from the country had received a higher average per cent, in every branch, not only in the "reasoning," but also in the "mechanical" group."
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Related Claims¶
- The authors attribute rural children's superiority to city-school conditions: lack of correlation between the urban community and the school and inflexibility of the grade system — related
- Rural eighth-graders were 0.92 of a year younger than city eighth-graders but took almost an hour longer on the Arithmetic test — related
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Rural eighth-grade children scored a higher average percent than city children in every branch tested, in both reasoning and mechanical question groups |
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Rural eighth-grade children scored a higher average percent than city children in every branch tested, in both reasoning and mechanical question groups |
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