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Errors In The Marking Of Printed Tests, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)
Errors In The Marking Of Printed Tests, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)
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The following comments are the result of preliminary analysis of some errors made by a random sample of teachers in marking the test papers of pupils who, in 1946, took part in the testing programme in connection with the Curriculum Survey being conducted by the A.C.E.R.
All schools where children did the tests were asked to select a certain number of papers at random from each grade and forward them to the A.C.E.R. The numbers sent in from each school were roughly proportional to the size of the school. Thus large schools sent in more papers per grade than the …