Age‐grade‐sex percentile norms for some educational tests

Standardized tests have become so firmly fixed in our educational thinking that no one need make apology for offering data to be used by those who are working with tests. During the last few years we have been;flooded with tests of all kinds. Some of these are good and, with further modifications, will survive. Many are probably worth very little and should be discarded. What we need at this stage of the testing movement is not a multiplicity of tests, but further perfection and standardization of existing tests, plus-perhaps most important of all-better methods of presenting and using the results. The purpose of the present article is to present data on certain test results in such a way that they can be used by teachers and other school workers for comparative purposes. During the last three years one of the writers has been collecting scores made by Southern children in several states when given certain educational tests. To these are added a number of scores made this year by children in Tennessee. Probably one-third of the scores used here were made by children in Tennessee, principally in Nashville. The rest were secured from other Southern states, approximately the same number from each state. In all, results have been used from over one hundred cities and towns. About two-thirds of the scores came from schools employing less than fifteen teachers. In many cases the results were secured from only one grade in each system. The number of scores used is shown for each grade in the tables. Some of this material has been presented elsewherel in the form of percentile tables. Here we have gone further. The scores have been tabulated on the basis of age, grade, and sex, so that we now present age-grade-sex percentile norms for certain educational tests. In this article, results from the Woody-McCall mixed fundamentals arithmetic test are used. Results from several other tests will be presented in subsequent numbers of this journal. We have presented the mate

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