ELEMENT OF CHANGE
IN SCHOOL EXAMINATION PAPERS WHAT INQUIRY REVEALED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 2. (Received December 3, at 1 p.m.) An element of chance in public examinations was revealed in a test organised by Sir Philip Hartog, Director of the International Institute of Examinations Inquiry Committee. Referring to the marking of school certificates, papers equivalent to the Australian leaving certificates, the report states that when 14 experienced examiners again marked independently 15 scripts, which all received the same moderate mark from the examining authority, they allotted more than 40 different marks. When the same papers were again submitted after an interval of 12 to. 19 months the examiners changed their minds’ on their verdicts of pass, fail, and credit in 92 out of 210 cases.
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Evening Star, Issue 22202, 3 December 1935, Page 9
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127ELEMENT OF CHANGE Evening Star, Issue 22202, 3 December 1935, Page 9
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