=========================================================== | |6TH YEAR |7TH YEAR |8TH YEAR |SCHOOL AVERAGE | | |----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----- A | B | C | D | C | D | C | D | C | D | E | F ---+---+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----- III| 1 |79.3|80.3|81.1|82.3|91.7|93.9|80.0|83.1| 3.7 | 53 I| 1 |80.4|81.5|64.2|67.2|80.9|82.8|76.6|80.3| 4.6 | 60 I| 2 |80.9|83.4|43.5|50.9|72.7|79.1|69.3|75.1| 7.7 | 25 I| 3 |72.2|74.0|63.5|66.2|74.5|76.6|67.8|72.2| 6.1 | 45 I| 4 |69.9|72.2|54.6|57.8|66.5|69.1|64.3|70.3| 8.5 | 45 II| 1 |71.2|75.3|33.6|35.7|36.8|40.0|60.2|64.8| 7.1 | 60 III| 2 |43.7|45.0|53.9|56.7|51.1|53.1|54.5|58.9| 7.4 | 60 IV| 1 |58.9|60.4|31.2|34.1|41.6|43.5|55.1|58.4| 5.6 | 60 IV| 2 |59.8|63.1| -- | -- |22.5|22.5|53.9|58.8| 8.3 | -- IV| 3 |54.9|58.1|35.2|38.6|43.5|45.0|51.5|57.6|10.5 | 60 IV| 4 |42.3|45.1|16.1|19.2|48.7|48.7|42.8|48.2|11.2 | -- V| 1 |44.1|48.7|29.2|32.5|51.1|58.3|45.9|51.3|10.5 | 40 VI| 1 |68.3|71.3|33.5|36.6|26.9|30.7|39.0|42.9| 9.0 | 33 VI| 2 |46.1|49.5|19.5|24.2|30.2|40.6|36.5|43.6|16.2 | 30 VI| 3 |34.5|36.4|30.5|35.1|23.3|24.1|36.0|42.5|15.2 | 48 VII| 1 |35.2|37.7|29.1|32.5|25.1|27.2|40.5|45.9|11.7 | 42 VII| 2 |35.2|38.7|15.0|16.4|19.6|21.2|36.5|40.6|10.1 | 75 VII| 3 |27.6|33.7| 8.9|10.1|11.3|11.3|25.3|31.5|19.6 | 45 =========================================================== High achievement by a system in computation went with high achievement in solving the problems, the correlation being about .50; and the system that scored high in addition or subtraction or multiplication or division usually showed closely similar excellence in the other three, the correlations being about .90. TABLE 11 SCORES MADE BY THE SIXTH-GRADE PUPILS OF EACH OF TWENTY-SIX SCHOOL SYSTEMS