ELEMENT OF CHANCE
PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS TESTS MADE IN BRITAIN LONDON, Dec. 2. The element of chance in public examinations was revealed in a test organised by Sir Philip Hartcg, director of the International Institute Examinations Inquiry Committee. Referring to the marking of school certificates papers, equivalent to the Australian leaving, the report states that when fourteen experienced examiners again marked independently fifteen scripts, which had 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 twelve to nineteen months the examiners changed their minds on the verdicts of pass, fail, and credit in 92 out of 210 cases.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 284, 4 December 1935, Page 7
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116ELEMENT OF CHANCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 284, 4 December 1935, Page 7
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