Word: testing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much less active, because both university professors and college teachers have become far more efficient than they were then. In England, examinations have become the main thing and practically control the teaching, although the true view of them would rather be that they should exist as a test of teaching. The examinations, though very old, had become purely formal in the last century: their present importance is comparatively recent. In the Cambridge Triposes, students have heretofore (for a change is now being made) been arranged according to merit. At Oxford the arrangement has been into classes according to merit...
...HAMLIN.There will be a test examination in History 5 next Friday...
There will be a test examination in History 5 today...
...reforms suggested and the substitutes proposed for the method of formal examinations as a test of progress and a measure of ability, have not as yet much commended themselves to college governors. In the English Literature classes of Prof. Tyler at the University of Michigan, several years since, an alternative was offered his students by which those who wished could escape the terrors of examination by a simple but effective remedy. Those men who were willing to do a certain prescribed amount of collateral reading were excused attendance at the ordeal which the rest had to endure. Indeed, we believe...
...long examinations is quite as evident this year as it has ever been. The subject is a very old one, but the annoyance is so great that the only way to correct it eventually, seems to be to speak of it periodically. Examinations can never be a very perfect test of what a man knows; hence, a few questions answered well are, in the majority of cases, a much better test than a number answered hurriedly. It is an impossibility, for instance, to do justice to fifteen questions, "and write as fully as you can in answer to each question...