DISSERTATIONS IN PRESS (Continued)

“Poetry Preferences in the Junior High School.” By Lucy
KANGLEY.

“An Experimental Study in Evaluating Practice Material for
Changing the Pronunciation of Vowel Sounds of College Fresh-

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men.” By Errie GEORGINE KUHN.

“Vocational Guidance in Catholic Secondary Schools (A
Study of Development and Present Status)”. By Sister M.
TERESA GERTRUDE Murray.

“Analysis of the Content of Student-Teaching Courses for
Education of Elementary Teachers in State Teachers Colleges.”
By EstHER Marion NELSON.

“History of Greek Play Production in American Colleges and
Universities from 1881 to 1936.” By Domis E. PLuccE.

“A Study of Those Who Influence and of Those Who Are
Influenced by Discussion.” By Ray H. Simpson.

“A Study of the Possibilities of Graphs as a Means of Instruc-
tion in the First Four Grades of the Elementary School.” By
RuTH G. STRICKLAND.

“Techniques Used by the Teacher during the Nursery School
Luncheon Period.” By GERTRUDE M. BorGESON.

“The Inter-Trait Rating Technique.” By MARYELLEN
ManHer LOMBARDI.

NOTES ON PRINTING .

Readers of BooK NOTES may have their names placed on the
mailing list of Notes on Printing, a new bulletin published by
the Bureau of Publications. No. 1 of the series is Proofreading;
No. 2, Copyright and Quotations; No. 3 will give news on
activities in book design, a field in which increased interest is
being shown, by publishers and school people.

“Enriched Teaching of Mathematics in the Junior High
School” (New and Enlarged Edition), by Professor MaxiE
Nave Wooprinc and Dr. VERA SANFORD, has been compiled
with a view to providing teachers with lists of illustrative mate-
rials drawn from many fields, with suggestions for club work
and other extra-curricular activities and bibliographies dealing
with the historical and cultural aspects of mathematics. The
contents of the volume fall into seven large divisions: unit ma-
terials; tests and workbooks; assemblies and mathematics clubs;
excursions; classroom equipment, pictures, and exhibits; bibli-
ographies, periodicals, and yearbooks; and history of mathe-
matics. Ready September 15.

NEW TESTS

The “Gates Reading Survey for Grades 3-12” by Professor
ARTHUR I. Gates has been standardized and will be available
September 15 through the Bureau of Publications. The tests
are designed to measure four important factors: level of compre-
hension, speed, accuracy, and vocabulary. Tables of norms, a
class record sheet with entries for fifty pupils, and a manual will
accompany these tests.

The Gates-Strang Health Knowledge Tests, revised form
1938, are now available for use in Grades 3 to 8 (Elementary
Test), and Grades 7 to 12 (Advanced Test). The items in-
cluded are based upon extensive curriculum research involving
an analysis of mortality, morbidity, and accident statistics, pop-
ular health sources, interests and needs of children of different
ages, and courses of study and textbooks. Items from the
original form of the test and a previous study of about five
hundred exercises were incorporated in the present tests. Each
test is 8 pages, and there are three equivalent forms of each
level.

A NOTE ON SPELLING

As a rule the Bureau of Publications’ editorial office follows
Webster’s spelling, and in cases where two or more spellings are
given the first, or preferred, form is used. Two words,
““cooperate” and “coordinate” present a problem in style. For
these two words Webster recognizes these forms in order of
preference: “‘co-operate,” “‘codperate,” and “cooperate.” The

hyphenated form, which is preferred, is awkward and space-

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consuming in itself, and is doubly so with a prefix, as “‘un-co-
operative’ and ‘“un-co-ordinated,” or still worse, “unco-
operative” and “inco-ordinated.” Since both these words are so
frequently used in educational writings it would be an economy
to discard the hyphen and use the third and least preferred
spelling—‘‘cooperate” and “‘coordinate.” A consistent rule to
be followed in spelling has proved useful to writers, publishers,
and printers, but in the case of these two words the practical
arguments in favor of the simplest form seem to the Bureau to
outweigh even the benefits to be gained from unbroken con-
sistency.

THE TEST NEWSLETTER

The Bureau publishes at intervals throughout the year a TEST
NEWSLETTER to which users of tests are invited to send ques-
tions which will be answered by authors of tests on the College
staff. Readers of BOoK NOTEs are also invited to use this
service. Below is a typical question-and-answer.

Have any tests been found effective in differentiating behavior
problem children from the child who is socially adjusted in the class-
room?

There are several tests which try to measure the child’s adjustment
to his school. None of them can pick out accurately the behavior
problem child but all of them may indicate which children need
further individual attention. In the elementary school the following
tests would be useful: “Pupil Portraits Test” by Pintner, Maller, For-
lano and Axelrod. This is useful in grades four to eight. ‘Character
Sketches” by J. B. Maller. This is adapted for grades five to college.
Both tests are published by the Bureau.

There are other tests which attempt to measure specific traits. An
example of this type of test is “Aspects of Personality” by Pintner,
Loftus, Forlano, and Alster. This test is adapted to grades four to
eight. The test gives measures of three traits, namely, ascendence-
submission, extroversion-introversion, and general emotional stability.

All of these tests will give the teacher or principal some indication
of the general adjustment of the child to the school.

R. PINTNER