On the Action of Examinations Considered as a Means of Selection

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W. Small, 1886 - 400 páginas
 

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Página 70 - House, from its members wearing their hoods lined with white silk. All the rest constitute the NonRegent or Lower House, otherwise called the BlackHood House, its members wearing black silk hoods.
Página 43 - It is, no doubt, a very laudable effort, in modern teaching, to render as much as possible of what the young are required to learn, easy and interesting to them. But when this principle is pushed to the length of not requiring them to learn anything but what has been made easy and interesting, one of the chief objects of education is sacrificed. I rejoice in the decline of the old brutal and tyrannical system of teaching, which, however, did succeed in enforcing habits of application ; but the new,...
Página 99 - If any person fails in an answer, the question goes to the next. From the elements of mathematics, a transition is made to the four branches of philosophy, viz. Mechanics, Hydrostatics, apparent Astronomy, and Optics, as explained in the works of Maclaurin, Cotes, Helsham, Hamilton, Rutherforth, Keill, Long, Ferguson, and Smith.
Página 76 - Streigneth me needely for to do a thing, 16730 (Needely clepe I simple necessite) ; Or elles if fre choys be graunted me To do that same thing, or to do it nought, Though God forwot it, er that it was wrought ; Or of his wityng streyneth never a deel, But by necessite condicionel. I wol not have to do of such matiere ; My tale is of a cok...
Página 246 - Examinations belong to general education, and o\ir remarks on the danger of artificial Examination knowledge taking the place of real knowledge, and of that which is flimsy and fading passing itself off as solid and indelible will therefore apply to them. In the Examinations employed in liberal education, three purposes are carried on simultaneously, we usually want to learn three things about the candidate, and the Examiner mentally, if not actually, assigns to him credit on each separate score;...
Página 43 - It is no doubt a very laudable effort, in the improved methods of modern teaching, to render as much as possible of what the young are required to learn, easy and interesting to them. But when this principle is pushed to the length of not requiring them to learn anything but what has been made easy and interesting, one of the chief objects...
Página 94 - ... give an account of the old disputations, the responsions and opponencies, and so on.* It will suffice to quote from the quaint description of the ancient Determinations on Ash Wednesday — as given in the Appendix A of Dean Peacock's Observations, p. x: When every man is placed, the Senior Proctor shall, with some oration, shortly move the Father to begyn, who after his Exhortation unto his Children, shall call fourthe his eldest sone.t animate hym * A glance backward may be made at the old...
Página 43 - Much must be done, and much must be learned, by children for which rigid discipline and known liability to punishment are indispensable as means. It is, no doubt, a very laudable effort in modern teaching to render as much as possible of what the young are required to learn easy and interesting to them. But when this principle is pushed to the length of not requiring them to learn anything but what has been made easy and interesting, one of the chief objects of education has been sacrificed.
Página 2 - ... essential to a teacher. In other words, an examination cannot test the whole man. It is necessary to discriminate between the two uses of this test. Latham says that examinations have two uses: (i)"that in which the object is to select the most suitable person for a certain purpose, or the man of the most general ability;" (2) "that in which the object is purely educational.
Página 230 - It became an accepted axiom in the undergraduate world that none but the pupils of a certain well-known "coach" had much chance of getting a first; and when the examiners tried to circumvent him by changing the character of the papers, they found themselves no match for the crammer, who had swung round from Mill to Herbert Spencer, and from Herbert Spencer to Hegel. The monopoly, then in the hands of a single "coach," has now passed into the hands of an organization, far more dangerous and less easy...

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