# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S654
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‘654 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
6. Workshop in Religious Education

The Board for Parish Education brought before the Committee
_& proposal that a Workshop in Religious Education be held to
study methods and materials for the teaching of religion in Lu-
theran elementary schools. Some of the problems to be studied
were to include such matters as objectives, grade groupings, con-
tent, course arrangement, criteria for materials and memory work.

This project was approved at a cost of $1,500. The project was
headed by Mr. William A. Kramer, and for its execution a group
of about thirty persons were assembled, including members of
the Board for Parish Education, District superintendents, pro-
fessors of religious education from the various seminaries, and
a limited number of competent pastors and teachers. Its results
are already available and have been put to use.

7. Tests and Measurements
The Synodical Convention of 1947 established a Lutheran Edu-
cational Measurements Bureau under the supervision of the Board
for Parish Education. The Board for Parish Education appointed
a committee on tests and measurements. This Committee began
work on such projects as tests on Biblical information, achieve-
ment tests on the Catechism, and a group test on Christian per-
sonality. The Committee allocated $5,000 to carry out these proj-
ects. The project on Biblical information is headed by Dr. T. G.
Stelzer; the Catechism test is under the direction of Dr. H. J.
Boettcher; and Professor W. O. Kraeft is heading the task of de-
veloping personality tests.
’ ‘These projects have been made possible by the allocation of
$5,000 to the Board for Parish Education.

8. Curriculum for Secondary Schools

Representatives of our Lutheran high schools requested finan-
cial assistance in the work of preparing an adequate curriculum
for Lutheran secondary schools.

Information revealed that to date an adequate curriculum had
been prepared only in the field of religion and that it had taken
a period of almost ten years to complete this one subject. The %
high school representatives suggested that if the funds were made ©
available, a complete curriculum could be prepared within the
next three years and that in this way it would be possible to pro~
vide a curriculum designed to increase the values inherent in
a high school education geared to a Lutheran philosophy of
education.

The sum of $10,000 was allocated for this particular under-