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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    The procedure adopted was as follows: Cards were prepared, one for each student, blue for men and cream for women. Details of a student’s entrance qualification were entered on the front of his card, details of his University career on the back. (A specimen card is appended to this Report, interleaved between pp. 120-121.) On the original cards these data were entered by the bodies which supplied them, z.¢. by the University, the Entrance Board, and the Scottish Education Department. But to prevent identifica- tion, copies were made of the cards, on which the students’ names were omitted and were replaced by running numbers. It was on these copies, and not on the original cards, that the Com- mittee’s computers worked. The data thus obtained were assembled, tabulated, and analysed. The results up to June 1933 are presented in this Report, together with such conclusions as the Committee have drawn.