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: CHAPTER II STUDY OF PUPILS' PREFERENCES Plan The following study of pupils' preferences is based upon a careful canvass of two thousand one hundred eighty-one papers, written as a language exercise, by third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade pupils, in response to the following questions: 1. What school study do you like best? Why? 2. What school study do you like least? Why? 3. What is your most pleasant work out of school? Why? 4. What is your most unpleasant work out of school ? Why? The teachers also sent in statements of their preferences as far as school studies were concerned. The purposes for which the above exercises were given were: 1. To give teachers an insight into their pupils' preferences in regard to school and other work, so as to bring them into closer touch and sympathy with their pupils. 2. To raise the enquiry whether or not teachers' preferences for certain studies lead them to put more thought, energy and skill into the teaching of such studies and thus largely shape their pupils' preferences. 3. To disclose to teachers, through their pupils' lack fcwo10 O r- t0 fo oo 5 t- O CO fO w NO i t w X; C rJ - M -jO O 10 O t- O O fO SJ9H3WJ.0 10 0 N 0 0-0s O O 5 O- O fO tDd"? IO kH O O CO Wz?sSAogt- O oO -O O CMiHiO W iO - Tf- Q OSo o -o o o o Po o£ 8O 1- C- CO fO O - I- N ' taf |HU! iJ 2" 2a 2 C" I?3SAog'0 0 fOX nw WWWe'XO t0 N N W M i to o '' N W to '- Q O fO NH, £" ? I? Si ir Oa S r- 0 t 10 0iIsoC? Pi S $ M 0O O 10 O O O a o o n t o£ 2" .S" Si "cT t? .H N N fO CO ) fO | O r- O r co t0 Tj- (N M M M O O O N fr3 O 00 N 0 O r- O O O 10 10 rt r- 00 N o moxf) O - 10 oO O 1WO£" S S "o Si 9 sXog10 O r- -J - O oo N Cl - M O -raxo o ft- r- oo M Grades X "2 X J3 £ Jb 'rt 3 11-1 £ 5 H...