Teachers Examinations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Nalder, Frank Fielding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331088984 ISBN 13: 9781331088981

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Teachers Examinations Purpose of This Bulletin. This bulletin has been prepared primarily in the hope that It may assist competent applicants to meet the tests required by the laws of this state with the minimum inconvenience incident to any examination. This analysis of teachers' examinations has been arranged under the following headings: I. What the teachers' examination can test. II. The development of the system in this state. III. Why teachers fail in examinations. IV. Tabulated results of examinations in certain subjects in detail. V. Lists of questions. VI. Suggestive questions and answers in State Manual. Prefatory Note. At the state teachers' examination in December, 1910, there were 456 applicants who wished to secure certificates on the examination alone. Of these, third grade certificates were issued to 165; second grade certificates to 131; and first grade certificates to 14; making a total of 310 who received certificates in this way, and leaving 146, or 32%, who failed to secure certificates. A brief study of the academic preparation of the applicants who failed would indicate that in the great majority of instances they had a sufficient amount of education to justify the expectation that they would pass the examination without any difficulty. Of the 146 who failed only 22 had not attended high school at all; 14 had attended high school for one year; 28 for two years; 17 for three years, and 65 were graduates of four-year high schools; 52 had, according to their own statement, attended higher institutions of learning, though many of the institutions specified could not be regarded as really higher institutions except by the most charitable construction of that term. Of course, it may be said that if people with the average amount of academic training possessed by these applicants are not able to pass so simple a test as the teachers' examination, then there is something the matter with either the training or the person. This or any other

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1331088984
• ISBN 13: 9781331088981
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58