EXAMINATIONS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SCHOOL

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  • Norman France McGill University

Abstract

At a time when the Province is taking a completely new look at education, it is wise to think again about the form and function of examinations. Why do we test and examine? Our reasons are many and varied. They will not be the same as those offered by parents or by students and we shall differ among ourselves depending on the age of the students we teach and the type of institution we teach in. Any one of us, if pressed, could perhaps advance three or four reasons in detail but we do not always realise that some of the functions we suggest are hardly compatible one with another. An examination devised to assess what a student has learned in high school is not necessarily the most efficient predictor of his success at university.

Author Biography

Norman France, McGill University

NORMAN FRANCE, formerly Chief Educational Psychologist to the Kent Education ,Committee and President of the National Association of Inspectors and Educational Organisers (Britain), is now Associate Professor of Education at McGiIl. Dr. France, whose Ph.D. is from the University of London, is author or co-author of many publications, including the France-Wiseman EducationaJ, Guidance Programme and The Certificate of Secondary Education (Collins, 1965).

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Published

1966-04-01

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France, N. (1966). EXAMINATIONS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SCHOOL. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 1(001). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/6560

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Vol. 1 No. 001 (1966)

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