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Report on a Test of Information About the Soviet Union in American Secondary Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Richard W. Burkhardt
Richard W. Burkhardt*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
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As part of a study of the treatment accorded the Soviet Union in the Social Studies program of the American secondary school, a test was given in the spring of 1945 to approximately 2,500 high school seniors enrolled in social studies courses. The purpose of the test was to discover how much significant knowledge about the Soviet Union was possessed by high school seniors. While Dean Philip J. Rulon of the Harvard Graduate School of Education was kind enough to advise the author in the preparation of the test, he is of course, not responsible for any errors in procedure or in interpretation of the test results.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 5 , Issue 3-4 , November 1946 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1946

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1 The reason that fewer communities from the west coast were included in the study was that the test was prepared late in the school year and many schools in this area were not reached until after their closing date. However, those schools which did participate are representative of the best work that is being done in the social studies in the West. We have every reason to believe that if more communities have been tested the figures for the section would have been lower rather than higher.

2 Henry D., Garrett, Statistics in Psychology and Education, New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1937, pp. 210, 213 Google Scholar.

3 Lindquist, E. F., Statistical Analysis in Educational Research, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940, p. 16 Google Scholar.