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: SCHOOL RECORDS—AN EXPERIMENT PURPOSE AND HISTORY In March, 1918, the Bureau of Educational Experiments began an experiment in school records. The undertaking arose from a practical need felt by all experimental schools,—the need to know what subject matter, equipment, and methods bring promising results. Another desire, held in common with most school experiments, was to accumulate material which should in time contribute towards a better knowledge of children's growth in school. To these ends the Bureau felt it necessary to work directly on the technique of school recording. At the outset of the experiment the old forms of school reports in common use were discarded as inadequate to convey real information concerning school procedure. The question of form and method of keeping new records was left open, the only requirement being that each record should supply educational data in a sufficiently organized form to be readily used by the Bureau and by the school or teacher co-operating in the experiment. The active participants in the experiment were the City and Country School (formerly the Play School), the Nursery School, several experimental classes in public elementary schools, and a Recorder. The City and Country School children were from three to nine years old, in groups of eight to fifteen children. The Nursery School children were between one and a half and three years old, in a group of eight children. The public school children were of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Grades. The illustrations in this report are nearly all from notes of these schools, and most of the children were under ten years of age. For the last two years, to June, 1921, the experiment was confined to the City and Country School and the Nursery School. In both of these schools the recordin... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.