After spending the summer of 1936 in conference among themselves, with members of the Commission and the Commission's Staff, with teachers and principals in tile Thirty Schools, with college deans, professors, and graduates, they drew up this set of criteria for their guidance:

1. Intellectual competence
2. Cultural development; use of leisure time; appreciative and creative aspects3. Practical competence; common sense and judgment; ordinary manual skills; environmental adaptability
3. Philosophy of life (pattern of goals)
4. Character traits (pattern of behavior)
5. Emotional balance (including mental health)
6. Social fitness
7. Sensitivity to social problems
8. Physical fitness (knowledge and practice of health habits)

As the staff making this College Follow-up Study explains, "Each of these criteria was broken down into more detailed and specific subdivisions, and opposite each criterion were listed suggested possible sources of evidence." ² For exam pie, the first criterion, intellectual competence, was still divided as follows: ³

Criteria 1. Intellectual competence of the student	Sources of Evidence
A. Scholarship Formal measurement of academic achievement	1. Official college records 2. Honors, prizes
B. Intellectual curiosity and drive. Manifestation of interest and activity in intellectual matters beyond course requirements	1. Questionnaires; reading records 2. Interviews, interests-number, quality, and variety 3. Samples of written work 4. Reports from instructors
C. Scientific approach Degree in which his work and thinking conform to the usually accepted characteristics of the scientific attitude	1. Tests 2. Interviews 3. Reports from instructors
D. Study skills and habits Willingness and ability to employ the tools of learning	1. Subject-matter placement tests 2. Oral reading tests 3. Silent reading tests 4. Other tests (library use, study techniques, etc.) 5. Samples of written work 6. Reports from instructors a. Research ability b. Accuracy, thoroughness, and organization c. Facility with examinations d. Request for special aid 7. Interviews and questionnaire a. Time distribution b. Study environment c. Student's own evaluation 8. Official records a. Excuses and cuts b. Late papers c. Remedial records

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