Show SCHOOL testina rt BRINGS COMMENTS FROM STATI OFFICE during tho the past year a cooperative effort has been made in which teachers have taken a very active part in building scientific tests to measure pupils progress in school fundamentals the result of these are now on oil tile file in the superintendents office and are being carefully studied and summarized samples of 0 these were sent to the state office quite as much to explain our methods method s of 0 giving and recording I 1 tests as of showing results the following letter from the state supervisor indicates his reaction thereto salt lake city may alay 28 1927 supt bupt 13 K farnsworth Farnsw fillmore utah dear superintendent it was a real pleasure to examine the scores made by the eighth grade pupils of the fillmore and leaming ton schools on the test you prepared and the one sent out irom from this office although I 1 have not worked out the correlation mathematically it seems to be high I 1 would expect that too especially since I 1 saw a copy of your test which you sent to mr air williamson on oil the whole however I 1 think your test is more difficult than the state test without having definite means of 0 making valid comparisons I 1 am inclined to think that your schools have done exceptionally good work in arithmetic I 1 am eagerly looking forward to receiving your report on arithmetic and d spelling for the district yours very truly I 1 lotter letter Dj bjarnason arnason state supervisor of grammar grades and junior high schools |