Education has given much attention to problems involved in grouping boys and girls for instruction. This emphasis is evidenced through the considerable space in professional literature which has hen devoted to this problem. Even so, the matter remains an issue in that considerable disagreement persists. However, there seem to be some general principles that have come to be commonly accepted. The writer, in her position of teaching boys and girls, faces this problem continuously. Thus, she has a keen interest in discovering more effective ways of meeting problems involved in grouping boys and girls for instruction. In order to satisfy this interest the writer has chosen her own school situation as a point of study. / Typescript. / "August, 1953." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Virgil E. Strickland, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-31).