The High School Failures (1919)
by Francis Paul Obrien (9780217892216)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the first year, but that there are a few who continue beyond four years without graduating. 2. The Later Distribution Of Pupils By Semesters Consideration is here given to the number of the total entrants remaining in school for each successive semester, and then to the accompanying percentages of failure for each group. The following figures show the rapid decline in numbers. The Persistence Of Pupils In School, By Semesters End Of Semester 123456 Graduate 6,141 (Total) 4,723 3,893 3,508 2,935 2,697 2,234 1,936 Percentages 76.9 63.4 57.1 47.8 43.9 36.4 31.5 As was pointed out in Section 3 of Chapter I, the above group does not include any increment to its own numbers by means of transfer from other classes or schools. We find, accompanying this reduction in the number of pupils, which shows more than 50 per cent gone by the end of the second year in school, that there is no corresponding reduction in the percentage of pupils failing each semester on the basis of the number of those in school for that semester. Percentage Of Pupils Failing Of The Pupils In School For That Period Semesters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PerCent 34.2 37.3 38.5 40.2 38.2 37.1 30.0 24.0 There is no difficulty in grasping the simple and definite significance of these figures, for they tell us that the percentage of pupils failing increases for the first four semesters, slightly declines for two semesters, with a greater decline for two more semesters. These percentages of failures are based on the number of pupils enrolled at the beginning of the semester, and are accordingly lower than the facts would really warrant since that number is in each case considerably reduced by the end of the same semester. 3. The Distribution Of Failures That the failures are widely distributed by...

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