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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    and the results of the whole inquiry were published in 1933 under the title The Intelligence of Scottish Children : A National Survey of an Age-Group.} All the material collected in this inquiry being accessible in the offices of the Research Council, the Examination Inquiry Committee resolved to keep in touch with the thousand children who had been tested individually, and to follow them up at least to the end of their school courses and where possible into their after-school careers, in the hope of ascertaining how far the promise shown at the age of eleven was fulfilled by subsequent performance. Thanks to the assistance readily given by teachers and education officers, this follow-up is now proceeding syste- matically, though it will naturally be some years before it yields results of general significance. The retrospective inquiry promised speedier returns. The Committee therefore decided to confine the investigation to a definite and manageable group of University students, those, namely, who had entered on degree courses in Arts and Pure Science at one of the Scottish Universities in the autumn of 1928, and who ought therefore in most cases to have completed their degrees by the summer of 1932. The object of the retro- spective as of the prospective inquiry was simply to elucidate the predictive value of examinations, in this case of the examina- tions on the strength of which these students had been admitted to graduation courses. The following statement shows the number of cases investigated in different categories :— Men. Women. StS ca Women. Hons. M.A., graduated . : 49 36 85 Ord. - os : : : 2 136 208 Hons. M.A., not yet graduated E 8 4 I2 Ord. me - ee ; 70 Sy) 127 Hons. B.Sc., graduated . : 14 3 Ly Ord. s 3 A : ; Z D 4 B.Sc., not yet graduated 14 3 17 fobs Bose 8 py ore : 5 2 = 2 Lotlae. 231 241 472 1 University of London Press, Ltd.