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In the total scores, the gain of the Sixth over the Fifth Grade is shown in the fact that the median score for the Sixth Grade is 91 and the median score for the Fifth Grade is 64.
It would be interesting to know if the same marked increase in the power of the Sixth Grade over the Fifth Grade to assimilate screen material is characteristic of larger groups of children than of the Horace Mann group studied. If so, it would be well to take advantage in the class-room of this sudden gain in power of observation and recall which seems to characterize the Sixth Grade, and beginning with the Sixth Grade to make corresponding use of the motion picture as a teaching tool.
In the unprinted report previously referred to, entitled " A Preliminary Report of Psychological Research on Motion Pictures conducted in Columbia University in 1926," Professor Woodworth reports the following gain in motion picture scores of schoolchildren in a town in Central New York tested by the " Fidelity of Report Experiment ".
" The results show a rather low score of correct answers to the forty questions, in the case of the youngest children tested, who were the fourthgraders. The score rises gradually to the seventh and eighth grades, as seen below:
Score of right answers, Fourth Grade 39 %.
Fifth Grade 47%.
Sixth Grade 60 %.
Seventh Grade 68%.
Eighth Grade 69 %.
SEEING THE FILM BEFORE
Thirty-five children, seven in the Fifth Grade and twenty-eight in the Sixth Grade, had seen the film before. About half the number had seen it as long as four or five years ago. But even with this long interval, the previous experience of the film seems to have been helpful. The median Intelligence Quotient of the Sixth Grade and the median Intelligence Quotient of those in the Sixth Grade who had seen the film before happens to be the same, 124.
Sixth Grade Sixth Grade Group who Had Seen Film Before
Median 124 124
Median Score on Test 91 92 %
For certain individuals whose mental ability was only average, the previous acquaintance of the film seems to have been especially helpful in answering the fact questions. Six girls made the following scores, 70, 80, 85, 90, 95, loo
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