Study of children in the third grade classroom of the Demonstration School at Florida State University during the 1950-1952 school terms--P. 2. From the study of the tentative edition of the Elementary Evaluative Criteria came increasing concern for improved educational programs in Florida. The writer, a teacher in the elementary grades, gave some thought to the possibilities of the use of the criteria as an aid to teaching. It was not to be used as a "measuring device" to see wherein the school has failed or succeeded, but rather it as to aid in setting up goals to be attained in an educational program for children. Such a program would offer opportunities for the all-round development of each child. With the hope that she might improve her methods of teaching, the writer became especially interested in the techniques for securing, recording, and using data to aid the guidance of the children placed in her care. / "A Paper." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Dora Skipper, Professor Directing Paper. / Methods of appraisal used in the "process of studying and noting growth characteristics, changes in the behavior of the individual, and his relation to society"--Page 3. / Includes bibliographical references.