SCHOOL INSPECTORS' CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 5 February 1894, Page 2

SCHOOL INSPECTORS' CONFERENCE.

(Br TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION,) '

Wellington, this day. The Conference approved of the follow*--;, ing recommendations of tbe Commute* re the improvement of bhe inspectorate of schools :—(1) Thab in Standard 4 about six; linea be dictated from the olass reading book, more than two errors to count as a ; failure ; (2) thab in Sbandards 5 and.6 aboub eighb linea be dicbabed from the. class reading book, more bhan bwo errors to count as a failure, bub ab the discretlOß of the inspector an unseen passage «' equal length from a reading book, when more than three errors shall count as a failure; (3) thab in arithmetic sums be given to each standard class, boys to pass on having three righb and girls 2£, in q«8"j tions thab are nob purely mechanical nail marks to be allowed for correctnese « . methods; (4) tbab in Standards 3 to o mental arithmotic may be given aa one ot the questions, or aa a substitute for one thab will be omibbed, on the following basis—three mental arithmetic questions to be seb, and two correct answers to carry , full marks, and one half marks; V) thab the Minister supply Inspectors WltU • _ few samples of .he kind ot questions to oc seb in examining the arithmetic ol a"*"*l . dard. The report waa adopted,