ve quality seven, seven quality eight, eight
quality nine, three quality ten, two quality eleven, two quality twelve,
one quality thirteen, one quality fourteen. In a table the distributions
of scores in penmanship for a large number of papers selected at random
show the following results:

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| GRADES
SCORES +------+------+------+------+------+------+-----
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
------------+-------------+------+------+------+------+-----
0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
4 | 5 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
5 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 3 | -- | 1 | --
6 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 3 | 2 | -- | 1
7 | 29 | 44 | 24 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 3
8 | 28 | 86 | 42 | 56 | 20 | 15 | 7
9 | 42 | 41 | 55 | 61 | 25 | 29 | 11
10 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 1
11 | 29 | 13 | 21 | 17 | 32 | 25 | 23
12 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 44 | 12 | 21
13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 9
14 | -- | -- | 3 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 9
15 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 9 | 6 | 15
16 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | 10 | 12 | 17
17 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 6 | 2 | 3
18 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | --
------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+-----
Total papers| 196 | 221 | 202 | 194 | 188 | 152 | 124
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A SCALE FOR HANDWRITING OF CHILDREN IN GRADES 5-8

The Unit of the Scale Equals approximately One-Tenth of the Difference
between the Best and Worst of the Formal Writings of 1,000 Children in
Grades 5-8. The Differences 16-15, 15-14, 14-13, etc., represent Equal
Fractions of the Combined Mental Scale of Merit of from 23-55 Competent
Judges.

Sample 140, representing zero merit in handwriting. Zero merit i