The high school failures : $b a study of the school records of pupils failing in academic or commercial high school subjectsO'Brien, F. P.
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The high school failures : $b a study of the school records of pupils failing in academic or commercial high school subjects
O'Brien, F. P.
Academic achievement; High school dropouts; Thesis (Ph. D.); Underachievers
NO. OF SEMESTERS TOTALS
FAILURES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 B. 459 430 375 352 271 221 157 113 22 11 2411
G. 561 535 428 421 328 261 167 123 35 9 2868
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32.5% 5279
2 B. 271 242 211 206 149 144 79 68 19 4 1393
G. 271 253 238 204 177 142 127 84 17 6 1519
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34.9% 2912
3 B. 144 106 81 73 59 60 45 27 6 2 603
G. 207 103 81 75 75 83 52 38 20 3 737
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35% 1340
4 B. 83 39 33 30 27 32 10 10 1 1 266
G. 95 50 38 35 27 39 19 19 3 0 325
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31.8% 591
5 B. 6 3 5 8 7 8 7 2 0 .. 46
G. 3 2 6 5 1 10 6 5 1 .. 39
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55.3% 85
6 B. .. .. 3 3 0 1 1 .. .. .. 8
G. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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25% 8
Tot. B. 963 820 708 672 513 466 299 220 48 18 4727
G. 1137 943 791 740 608 535 371 269 76 18 5488
10,215
Table III tells us that 459 boys and 561 girls have one failure each
in the first semester of their high school work; 271 boys and the same
number of girls have two failures in the first semester, and so on, for
the ten semesters and for as many as six failures per pupil. The
failures represented by these pupils give a total of 17,960. A
distribution of the total failures per pupil, and the facts relative
thereto, will be considered in Chapter IV of this study.
The above distribution of Table III is repeated here in Table IV, so
far as it relates to the failing graduates only.
TABLE IV
A DISTRIBUTION OF THE FAILING PUPILS WHO GRADUATE, ACCORDING TO
THE NUMBER OF FAILURES PER PUPIL IN EACH SEMESTER
NO. OF SEMESTERS TOTALS
FAILURES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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