Acquiring skill in teaching by Grant James Richard

Author:Grant, James Richard. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Teaching
Publisher: New York, Chicago [etc.] Silver, Burdett & company
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

ACQUIRING SKILL IN TEACHING

XIII. MEASURING RESULTS OF CLASSROOM WORK

The value of examinations, as we have seen, is being questioned. They are being displaced by various forms of mental measurements. When a teacher grades an examination paper, she hardly knows how much faith to put in her own judgment. Starch and Elliott^ had a student solve a problem in geometry. The solution was given to forty-nine geometry teachers. They were asked to examine the paper and grade it on the scale of o to i2|. Mathematics being an exact science, one would expect all to give at least approximately the same grade, but their grades were as follows:

6 gave it 6

These results might well cause a teacher to doubt her ability to give a fair mark to an examination paper. Such investigations have shown the necessity of standard tests.

The actual value of tests and measurements to the classroom teacher is still a question to be decided.

^Reliability of Grading Work in Mathematics. — School Review, Vol. XXI, Pages 254-259.

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