Download or read book An Investigation of Certain Abilities, Fundamental to the Study of Geometry (Classic Reprint) written by John Harrison Minnick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Investigation of Certain Abilities, Fundamental to the Study of Geometry In 1911 - 12 the author had charge of about forty pupils in second-term plane geometry in the Bloomington, Indiana, high school. Most of these pupils came from good homes and apparently should have been able to do satisfactory work. Such, however, was not the case. Crudely constructed tests revealed almost complete lack of certain abilities believed to be fundamental to the study of geometry. Special attention given to these abilities resulted in a decided improvement in the work of the group. Since then the author has experimented along these same lines with other classes and in the light of this experi ence it seemed desirable to determine the relation of these specific abilities to general geometrical ability. During the years 1915 17 he conducted an extensive investigation which is reported in the following pages. So far as the author knows, no similar investigation has been carried on in this field. L. V. Stockard and J. Carlton Belll have made A Preliminary Study of the Measurement of Abili ties in Geometry, but it does not cover the ground of this investigation. Suggestions as to methods of procedure and of handling the data have been gathered from the following Thorndike's Mental and Social Measurements, Brown's Mental Measurement, King's Elements of Statistical Methods, Buckingham's Spelling Ability - Its Measurement and Distribution, Stone's Arithmetical Abilities, Some Factors Determining Them Trabue's completion-test Language Scales, and Woody 5 Measurements of Some Achievements in Arithmetic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.