EXAMINATION MARKS
THE EIEMEHTOF CHANCE INQUIRY IN BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, January 2. Speaking at the twenty-fourth annual conference of educationel associations, which has been opened in London, Sir Michael Sadler, who is chairman of the committee of educatioiusts which is ■ conducting an inquiry into the examination system, said the evidence so far collected shook confidence in the reliability of the customary tests, and indicated that chance played too large a part in the award of marks. The examination system should be mended, no ended, since examinations at many stages were _ indispensable as a means of selection. The examining authorities must submit their own methods to an searching, and impartial test.
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Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11
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115EXAMINATION MARKS Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11
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