A Second Study of Mental Fatigue in Relation to the Daily School Program

The author recently published a report1 on an experiment with forty classes, 1153 pupils, in four New York City Schools. The present report deals with a similar experiment with sixteen classes, containing 573 pupils, in three Lynchburg, Va., schools. The important difference between the experiments is the amount of continuous work required by the tests. The New York classes were given four ten minute tests at four periods of the school day, the Lynchburg classes two twenty-five minute tests at two periods. The subject matter used was the same in both experiments, but the Lynchburg classes took two tests as one. The reason for this extension of time was the supposition that a ten minute spurt might not reveal the amount of fatigue present, the pupils working the short test with