College-Entrance Requirements Ten Years after the Eight-Year Study

1953 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 521-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Emanuel
Keyword(s):  
College Entrance ◽  
College Entrance Requirements

A Reorganization of Geometry for Carryover

1941 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
Harold D. Aten
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Series Form ◽  
American Council ◽  
The Third ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
College Entrance Requirements ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Geometry Test

“I enrolled in this course merely to complete the college entrance requirements … Now I wish that I could study geometry all the rest of the time I am in high school.” The fifteen-year-old writer of the preceding statement had little interest or ability in mathematics. Early in the course he tried to explain a postulate by a highly-prized “picture of one.” With I.Q. (Terman) 98, he ranked in the third quartile of eighty-five tenth grade pupils who formed our experimental group. He kept a detailed notebook of theorems and daily assignments, written up in his own words. At the end of the year he confided that he had never seen inside a geometry book. He took the Cooperative Plane Geometry test, Revised Series Form Q, of the American Council of Education with a score of 25.5, about 40 per cent above the standard for the country as a whole.

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