Paragraph Meaning 17-0 18-5 Unmeasured Unmeasured Word Meaning 15-9 16-10 17-2 17-8 Dictation 16-6 17-8 18-2 Unmeasured Language Usage 16-5 19-2 18-11 Unmeasured Literature 16-0 16-2 18-8 Unmeasured History and Civics 12-6 12-10 15-11 17-4 Geography 11-11 16-2 17-4 18-5 Physiology and Hygiene 12-6 14-6 16-10 18-5 Arithmetic Reasoning 13-1 16-6 17-4 17-6 Arithmetic Computation 11-10 14-6 17-6 17-6 Average score 14-4 16-3 17-8 18-5 Grade status 8.4 Unmeasured Unmeasured Unmeasured The first of these achievement tests was given shortly after J entered the experimental class, from the fifth grade in a public school, at the age of about 7 years 6 months. At that time her school achievement scores show her to have been between eighth- and ninth-grade status, with an Educational Age just about twice her Chronological Age. So far as Educational Age is concerned, although the experimental program was half concerned with enrichment activities rather than with the conventional fundamentals, J advanced one year and eleven months during the first school year there, one year and five months during the second year, and nine months during the last year. By this time progress was practically impossible because after the first year most of her scores were unmeasured in grade status, being above the standards for tenth grade. As a matter of mere achievement scores, J was ready for high school work at the age of being received from the fifth grade into the experimental classes at Speyer School. There are in the files several poems written by J while she was in Speyer School, before May, 1939; that is, before her tenth birthday. The following may be given as a representative sample of these compositions. A MARCH SNOWFALL It's March, yet snow is falling fast, And one may hear the wintry blast. A budding tree, a sign of spring, Will to me great gladness bring. When crocuses have put their heads, Above the softened garden beds, And when in all the fields around Lively little lambkins bound, And green creeps up across the lawn I'll be glad the snow has gone. [1] This chapter was written by H. L. H. CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHILD K Child K is a boy, born December 19, 1922. He first came to the attention of this series of researches in 1929 when his grandmother sought advice concerning his education from Leta S. Hollingworth. [1] FAMILY BACKGROUND K's paternal grandparents are English and Scotch-Irish. The grandfather is said to write poetry and the grandmother to compose music for the verses.