ELEMENT OF CHANCE
PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS DISCLOSURE BY INQUIRY CHANGES IN VERDICTS (Elec. Ti'l. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Doc. 3, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 2. Tin- element, of chance in public: examinations was revealed in a. test, organised by Sir Philip Harfog, director of the International Institute examinations inquiry committee. Referring to the marking of school certificates and papers emuvalent to the Australian leaving standard, the report states that when 14 experienced examiners again marked them independently, 15 scripts which had all received the .same moderate mark from the examining authority, they allotted more than 40 different marks. When the same papers again were submitted after an interval of 12 to 19 months, the examiners changed their minds on. the verdicts of pass, fail, and credit in 92 put of 210 cases.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18879, 3 December 1935, Page 11
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131ELEMENT OF CHANCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18879, 3 December 1935, Page 11
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