Course selection and specialisation

The work reported in the following pages was commenced early in 1953 but has extended over most of 1954 as well because of the time consumed in gathering some of the data. All the information presented refers to students of the Hawera Technical High School where the writer is one of the teaching staff. The purpose of this study was to examine the transition of pupils through the school and to try to evaluate some of the practices which have become established in providing for the education of those pupils.