Excerpt from Teachers College Bulletin: A Scale for Measuring the Importance of Habits of Good Citizenship, With Descriptions of Its Use in a New Report Card at the Horace Mann School
Naturally the parents and pupils felt that the school was sending home on the regular report card the information about the child which was considered most important; and the teachers themselves, for a similar reason, were likely to view the instruction in the traditional school studies as their chief duty.
In order to consider the preparation of reports for the elementary school which should be free from as many of these objectionable features as possible, a committee of two, consisting of the writers, was appointed. The new system which is here described was subsequently devised; and, so far as its main features are concerned, was put in operation as an experiment in September, 1918, in the Horace Mann Elementary School of Teachers College and the Scarborough School, Scarborough-on-Hudson.
The first feature of the new plan is the report sent quarterly to the parents. This is printed on heavy letter paper so that it can be folded and inserted in an ordinary envelope. The form is reproduced on the following page.
As is evident from an examination of the forms presented, the report as now in use has two distinct parts, the first relating to studies, and the second to habits and attitudes desirable for good citizenship. The part devoted to studies differs in two respects from the report card formerly used. In the first place, only those studies in which the child is above average and below average are specified, no particular reference being made to those studies in which he is doing average work. A complete list of the subjects which the child is pursuing is given on the reverse side of the report. The term "average" is defined as "the achievement in a given subject of the middle half of a representative class." In the second place, subjects "that show particular improvement" and those "in which the child apparently is not working to the best of his ability" are listed. By reporting these items the teacher may encourage the children who are doing well, although perhaps standing low; and, on the other hand, may arouse to better effort those standing high, but not working to the best of their ability.
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