A FOLLOW‐UP OF CHILDREN IN THE FIRST i.t.a. EXPERIMENT

Summary. Two follow-up tests (in T.O.) were administered to pupils in the original i.t.a. experiment; the NFER Sentence Reading Test 1 (silent reading comprehension) at the beginning of the fifth year of school, and the NFER English Progress Test B at the end of the fifth year. The superiority of the i.t.a. group at the end of the third year which was reported in The i.t.a. Symposium, was maintained in both these tests in the fifth year. It seems possible that these experimental group subjects have developed an understanding of the structure of English which they are using to map the more complex T.O. code.