GRANTING OF PROFICIENCY
“DOUBLE MARKING” DENIED treatment of doubtful cases EXPLANATION BY DIRECTOR. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Wellington, Dec. 22. That there had been “double marking” Iby inspectors revising marks when it was found that a lower number of pupils than usual had passed was. emphatically denied by the Director of Education, Mr. T. B. Strong, to-day in connection with the proficiency examinations. Explaining how the allegation might have arisen, Mr. Strong said there were always a number of doubttul cases where candidates did not acquit themselves as well as they might at the inspectors’ examinations and it was then necessary for the examiners to make careful investigation into the teachers’ estimate of the quality of the work the candidate had done throughout the year. It was not uncommon, therefore, for supplementary proficiency results to be published. Presumably. it was the issue of these that had caused some people to infer that there had been what was called “double marking.’’
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1931, Page 7
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