Prognostic value of university entrance examinations in Scotland.

Date:
1934
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Credit: Prognostic value of university entrance examinations in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART I GENERAL DEDUCTIONS I INTRODUCTORY In May 1931 the International Institute of Teachers College, Columbia University, with the concurrence and support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, convened an International Conference at Eastbourne to discuss the place of examinations in modern education and their effect on the structure of modern societies. England was represented at the Conference by Dr P. B. Ballard, Professor Delisle Burns, Professor Cyril Burt, Sir Philip Hartog, Sir Percy Nunn, Sir Michael Sadler, Professor C. E. Spearman, and Dr Graham Wallas; France by M. Barrier, M. Bouglé, M. Cope, M. Declos, and M. Ch. Maurain; Germany by Professor Carl Becker, Dr Otto Bobertag, Professor Erich Hylla, and Dr Robert Ulich; Scotland by Mr W. A. F. Hepburn, Dr Robert R. Rusk, Dr J. C. Smith, and Professor Godfrey H. Thomson (Mr Thomas Henderson, Honorary Secre- tary to The Scottish Council for Research in Education, was invited to the Conference, but was not able to be present); Switzerland by M. Pierre Bovet; and the United States of America by Dr C. H. Judd, Dr Frederick P. Keppel, Dr Paul Monroe, Dr Henry Suzzallo, and Dr Edward L. Thorndike.1 * On the English Committee Professor Godfrey Thomson has taken the place rendered vacant by the death of Dr Graham Wallas. MM. Gastinel, Laugier, Luc, and R. d’Argila (Secretary) have been added to the French Committee in place of M. Cope, deceased, and M. Maurain. Of the German Committee only Professor Hylla is left; Professor Becker and Dr Bobertag have died, and Dr Ulich is now in America. The Swiss Committee consists of M. Pierre Bovet, Dr W. Brenner, M. Edouard Claparéde, M. Robert Dottrens, Dr Charles Junod, M. Albert Malche, M. Jean Piaget, Dr W. Schohaus, Dr Ida Somazzi, Dr Hans Stettbacher, and M. Teodoro Valentini.