Yet many educators are now beginning to dig down into what has been considered for over a century to be ...
Rethinking school exams: our skewed 'sorting mechanism' defines winners and losers
Such has been the unquestioning acceptance of the procedure, sitting exams at the end of school is much like alighting from a train when we reach our destination: a necessary station before we go on to the next stage of our lives.
There is a growing sense that rather than exams being a measure of what has been learned, students are now only being taught what can be measured.