A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

MEASUREMENT OF INSTRUCTION 137
Median Median
Grade age Grade age
(years) (years)
I..... 9.2 V..... 14.5
II.... 10.8 VI.... 15.6
III... 12.2 VII... 16.8
IV... 13.4
Has this added maturity tended to raise the score of Filipino pupils?
To answer the question we have segregated the test papers by "age"
groups, and have used as our basis of final comparison of Filipino and
American achievements, the median scores of a "master group" for each
grade. The master group for Grade III is made up of 11 years olds;
for Grade IV, 12 years olds; Grade V, 13 years olds, etc. These
ages represent, for a given grade, a close approximation to the median
age of the American children who made the median score.
The median scores of the master group for a given grade are almost
identical with the median scores for all the pupils of that grade.
Table 3 gives the results for general reading ability.
TABLE 3.-COMPARISON OF MEDIAN READING AGES OF ALL PUPILS IN A GRADE WITH
MEDIAN READING AGES OF MASTER GROUPS

Median
Median read- reading
Grade ing ages of ages of
all pupils master
group

III........ 7-11 7-11
IV........ 8-8 8-9
V......... 10- 1 10- 2
VI....... 11- 0 11- 0
VII........ 11- 4 11- 6
First year,
high school. 11-11 12- 2
The comparisons are practically the same for the other abilities which
were tested.
An analysis like that for master groups has been made for all age
groups, for all tests, and for each grade, from Grade III through the
fourth year of the high school. The statistical results are very elaborate
and, because of insufficient space, are not published here. They prove,
however, that the presence of unusually old pupils in Filipino grades
does not tend to raise the median scores of the schools. On the contrary, it tends to lower it. On the average, the moderately young pupils
represented by our master groups make typical scores. The very low