Date of Award

6-1927

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Education

First Advisor

James M. O'Gorman

Second Advisor

William M. Magee

Abstract

Scientific measurement is not a novel thing. As a matter of fact, educators are and have always been confirmed users of measurement, measurement of a kind. For several generations teachers have been employing tests which to the uninitiated observer would differ from standard tests in only one respect. The teachers ·test is usually written on the blackboard while the standard test is usually printed on paper. Present a standard test to a teacher or principal who never heard of one, and neither will recognize that it is possessed of any peculiar virtue or potent dangers. Ayres tells us: "If Dr. Rice is to be called the inventor of educational measurement, Professor E. L. Thorndike should be called the father of the movement." And yet, if the .great majority of us had thought of standard tests before Dr. Rice, or scaled tests before Dr. Thorndike; we probably should not have deemed the ideas worth enough to spend time upon or dangerous enough to frantically discard.

Comments

A Thesis submitted To Fulfill The Requirements For The Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Marquette University, College of Liberal Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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