HANDWRITING TEST.
♦ In the New South Woles State Schools, the teachers are now able to evaluate the handwriting of children by a fixed measure, which substitutes the objective method of judging handwriting for the persona, or subjective method, a system that is now considered unscientnflc and varying. By means of writing scales, issued by the Department of Education, not only may Immediate values be determined, hut also the periodic progress of an individual or class. Competitions between different classes of the school, moreover, can now be decided without the dilurbing influence of personal bias, and teachers henceforth will be able to ascertain With accuracy if Ihn handwriting of a class one year has improved on classes of previous years. By use of the scales children even will be able to determine the - value of their own handwriting correctly.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15033, 2 September 1922, Page 14 (Supplement)
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138HANDWRITING TEST. Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15033, 2 September 1922, Page 14 (Supplement)
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