Synthesis: External examinations in retrospect and prospect

Title
Synthesis: External examinations in retrospect and prospect
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Vlaardingerbroek, Barend
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Editor
Editor(s): Barend Vlaardingerbroek and Neil Taylor
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Cambria Press
Place of publication
Amherst, United States of America
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:6336
Abstract
External examinations have come a long way since the days when they involved a set of common written tests administered to cohorts of pupils hoping to be promoted to the next level of schooling, or to a select elite aspiring to be admitted to the esoteric Olympus of university. They have had to accommodate increasing numbers of learners spanning an ever greater range of abilities and aptitudes all aiming higher in the face of labour market credential inflation, the proliferation of subject areas including practical and applied subjects, and antipathy from some sections of the educational community. These various challenges have been underpinned by the sometimes competing or even conflicting demands of quality assurance and equity. Behind it all has loomed the spectre of burgeoning costs. Akin to living organisms, external examination systems are evolving entities. Environmental changes have put pressure on them and brought about some local extinctions, but on the whole, the external examination genome has mutated and adapted as circumstances have required.
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Citation
Secondary School External Examination Systems: Reliability, Robustness and Resilience, v.1, p. 337-349
ISBN
9781604976007
1604976004
Start page
337
End page
349

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