Excerpt from English Composition: 150 Specimens Arranged for Use in Psychological and Educational ExperimentsThis Monograph consists of one hundred and fifty specimens of English composition whose general merit has been deter mined with fair precision by a consensus of from 23 to over 100 judges. Such a series will be useful for a number of pur poses, especially for (a) tests of the accuracy of complex judg ments, and consequent measurements of individual, class, and sex differences, correlations with other forms of judgment, and measurements of the effect of various conditions upon the ac curacy oi judgment, (b) experiments in practice and the trans fer of improvement, (3) measurements of the ability of pros pective teachers to distinguish merit in compositions, (d) the discovery of special prejudice and constant errors in the judg ments made by teachers, (e) experiments to demonstrate and measure the value of objective scales as aids to the process of judging the general merit of specimens of English composi tions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.