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Excerpt from The Use of Intelligence Tests as a Basis of School Organization and Instruction The Problem. The experiment described in this bulletin was carried on in eight elementary schools in the city of Chicago. It was an attempt to answer the following question: What is the effect upon the efficiency of elementary schools of promoting and classify ing pupils chiefly upon their mental ages and intelligence quotients as determined by group intelligence tests rather than according to the traditional method? It is recognized that this is really a double problem involving the question of a flexible system of promotion and classification upon any basis as compared with a non - flexible system, and also the question of using the results of group intelligence tests rather than some other basis for promotion and classification. The justification for combining these two questions is that the use of the results from group intelligence tests for the purposes men tioned above necessarily involves a flexible system and hence the two questions may be considered as one from the standpoint of practical school administration. 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.