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Cage
31
Stone, Cliff W.
Cliff W. Stone
Papers
1918-1947
5 containers.
2.5 linear feet of shelf space.
2800 items.
Correspondence, raw research data,
statistics, and reports for the 1927-1929 Washington Education Association
comparative study of rural schools. Also recommendations for students, and
research notes, drafts of articles and publications in part concerned with the
development of educational tests measuring arithmetical reasoning in
children.
Collection materials are in
English.
Cliff Winfield Stone was born in Wisconsin in 1874. After graduation
from the State Normal School at Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1899 he later attended
Columbia University where he took the B.S. in 1904 and the Ph.D. in 1908. He
served as a teacher, school principal, and director of teaching in such diverse
places as Indiana, New York City, Virginia, and Iowa. During World War I Dr.
Stone was a member of the American Expeditionary Force University at Beaune,
France. Directly following his service in France he came to Washington State
University as Professor of Education. He served in this capacity from 1920 to
1946 when he retired as Professor Emeritus of Education.
An early pioneer in testing children's arithmetical abilities, Dr.
Stone published a work on this subject in 1908 which he followed several years
later with a series of reasoning tests in arithmetic.
The New Stone Reasoning Tests in Arithmetic (1927) was
published by Columbia University's Teachers' College. His knowledge in this
field served him well when he chaired the Washington Education Association's
school survey of the graded school and the one-room "little red schoolhouse"
which was typical in rural areas of Washington State. The study was to survey
and then compare progress made by pupils of one-room schools with progress made
by pupils of equal ability from graded schools. Dr. Stone completed such a
study, albeit on a limited basis, in 1927 (cf.
Journal of Educational Research, November, 1927). The
state-wide survey he and his associates made was published as "
The Subject Progress of Pupils in Different Types of
Schools" in the
Washington Education Journal, April 1930.
The papers of Cliff W. Stone consist of approximately 2,800 items of
correspondence and research materials pertaining to his various activities
while at WSU.
This collection of papers presents a researcher with raw data,
statistical analysis, and reports written for a state-wide educational project
completed during an era of social and economic change in the state of
Washington.
Series 1 reflects Dr. Stone's work as a college teacher, researcher
into arithmetical reasoning in school children, and friend to hundreds of WSU
students seeking teaching positions. Series 2 contains the specific work Dr.
Stone undertook for the Washington Education Association in the late 1920s. He
and several associates attempted a state-wide educational analysis of students
in graded school houses as opposed to those students who were still attending
the one-room school made famous as the "little red schoolhouse."
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage 31, Cliff W. Stone
Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Washington State University Library acquired the papers of Cliff
W. Stone, professor of education at Washington State University, as part of a
deposit of College of Education Records during the Summer of 1974.
His obituary was published in the Oct. 30, 1958 Pullman Herald.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Stone, Cliff Winfield, 1874- --Archives
Washington Education Association.
Washington State University. College of Education, donor.
WaPS
Educational
tests and measurements--Research
Educators--Washington (State)--Correspondence
Rural
schools--Washington (State)
Colleges and Universities
Washington (State)
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series 1: Personal and Professional
Papers
Correspondence. This sub-series
contains personal and professional correspondence relating to Stone's
activities.
1918-1938
500
1
1
1918-1929
1
2
1930-1931
1
3
1932-1934
1
4
1935-1938
Student Recommendations: Copies
of recommendations written by Stone for his students while at WSU. They are in
alphabetical order.
1929-1947
500
1
5
A-E
2
6
F-L
2
7
M-R
2
8
S-Z
2
9
Publications: Copies of published
articles and of articles for publication.
9
2-3
10-12
Research Materials: Tests, test
summaries, and graphs of test results pertaining to Stone's educational
research.
470
2-3
13
Students' Research Projects:
Examples of student research projects directed by Stone.
21
Series 2:. Washington Education
Association Project Papers
1927-1929
3-5
14-21
Raw Data Sheets: School survey
raw data (e.g. I.Q. test results, attendance, educational costs, performances
on various subject tests.)
1000
3-5
22-23
Summaries, Reports, and Tables:
Reports supporting summaries of statistical data plus graphs and tables of raw
data used in compiling the final report.
250
3-5
24
Financial Statements, Vouchers,
and Bills
63