ELEMENT OF CHANCE
Marking Examination Papers
(Received 3, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 2
The element of chance in public examinations was revealed in a test organised by Sir Philip Hartog, director of the International Institute examinations inquiry committee. Referring to the marking of school certificates papers equivalent to the Australian leaving certificate, the report states that when fourteen experienced examiners again marked independently fifteen scripts which all received the same moderate mark from the examining authority they allotted more than 40 different marks. When tho same papers were again submitted after an interval of 12 to 19 months the examiners changed their minds on verdicts in 92 out of 210 cases.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 298, 3 December 1935, Page 7
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