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THE EXTERNAL EXAMINATION is regarded by the majority of students — and many teachers too — as an extremely unfair method of assessing a student's ability to proceed to the next stage of a course. Let it first be said that examinations as they are at present, whether set internally or externally...
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| Published in | Education & training (London) Vol. 3; no. 9; pp. 17 - 20 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.09.1961
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | THE EXTERNAL EXAMINATION is regarded by the majority of students — and many teachers too — as an extremely unfair method of assessing a student's ability to proceed to the next stage of a course. Let it first be said that examinations as they are at present, whether set internally or externally, are not the best possible method for assessing a student's ability; it is possible that they are the best method we have available, since as yet there is no acceptable alternative. For a student's career to depend on a three‐hour examination shows that we have not progressed far in the educational field. There is enormous scope for improvement in this direction; but this is another matter. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0040-0912 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/eb015027 |