The Student and His Knowledge:A Report to the Carnegie Foundation on the Results of the High School and College Examinations of 1928 Bulletin Number Twenty-nine

William S. Learned and Ben D. Wood, Director of Collegiate Educational Research, Columbia College, wrote The Student and His Knowledge: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation on the Results of the High School and College Examinations of 1928. A study of the results of the high-school and college examinations given in the study of the relations of secondary and higher education in Pennsylvania, 1928, 1930, and 1932, and also known as the Pennsylvania Study, it looked at the weakness of the course credit system as a measurement of academic progress and legitimized the concept of objective testing as a way of measuring achievement. The report includes a summary of results and conclusions drawn from the high-school and college examinations; an academic examination of 1928; and a discussion of the academic growth of the baccalaureate mind. which was informed by secondary-school backgrounds, the college sophomore and senior examinations in 1930 and 1932, progress and learning in high school and college, the achievement of contemporary college classes and of prospective teachers in the Commonweatlh of Pennsylvania. The report's appendix includes information on the tests and their results, treatment of data, institutional studies, explanation of the sigma scale and a list of participating universities, arts coleges, and technical schools.