Total papers| 196 | 221 | 202 | 194 | 188 | 152 | 124 ============================================================ * * * * * A SCALE FOR HANDWRITING OF CHILDREN IN GRADES 5-8 The Unit of the Scale Equals approximately One-Tenth of the Difference between the Best and Worst of the Formal Writings of 1,000 Children in Grades 5-8. The Differences 16-15, 15-14, 14-13, etc., represent Equal Fractions of the Combined Mental Scale of Merit of from 23-55 Competent Judges. Sample 140, representing zero merit in handwriting. Zero merit is arbitrarily defined as that of a handwriting, recognizable as such, but yet not legible at all and possessed of no beauty. [Illustration: qual0.png: ] Quality 4. [Illustration: qual4.png: ] Quality 5. [Illustration: qual5.png: ] Quality 6. [Illustration: qual6.png: ] Quality 7. [Illustration: qual7.png: ] Quality 8. [Illustration: qual8a.png: ] [Illustration: qual8b.png: ] Quality 9. [Illustration: qual9a.png: ] [Illustration: qual9b.png: ] [Illustration: qual9c.png: ] Quality 10. [Illustration: qual10.png: ] Quality 11. [Illustration: qual11a.png: ] [Illustration: qual11b.png: ] [Illustration: qual11c.png: ] Quality 12. [Illustration: qual12a.png: ] [Illustration: qual12b.png: ] [Illustration: qual12c.png: ] Quality 13. [Illustration: qual13a.png: ] [Illustration: qual13b.png: ] [Illustration: qual13c.png: ] [Illustration: qual13d.png: ] Quality 14. [Illustration: qual14a.png: ] [Illustration: qual14b.png: ] Quality 15. [Illustration: qual15a.png: ] [Illustration: qual15b.png: ] [Illustration: qual15c.png: ] [Illustration: qual15d.png: ] Quality 16. [Illustration: qual16a.png: ] Quality 17. [Illustration: qual17.png: ] Quality 18. [Illustration: qual18.png: ] * * * * * This table reads as follows: Quality four was written by five children in the second grade and two in the third grade, quality five was written by twenty-two children in the second grade, two children in the third grade, three in the fourth grade, three in the fifth grade, none in the sixth grade, one in the seventh grade, and none in the eighth grade, and so on for the whole table.[24]