1931-09-25 — Page 7

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931.

SHOULD

EXAMINATIONS

BE ABOLISHED?

Should Examiners Themselves Be Examined?

A PROFESSOR'S OPINIONS.

Present Methods Are

Haphazard.

Rather..

The examination

comu

on

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

crepancies and of difficult cases FORGED NOTES CASE. with a view to the understanding of them.

1

Witness Takes All the

Blame. ..:

BROTHER'S INNOCENCE.

M.C.L. WORK. Addresses by Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton.

PLEASANT "AT HOME."

Members and supporters of the Ministering Children's League were gucate of Lady Feel at an "At Home" at Government House yes- Tea was served on the terday.

Hon. Mr. lawn, after which the W. E. L. Shenton addressed the gathering in the Ball Room, on the work of the League. Sir Shou-son Chow also spoke in Chinesa.

Research. Fourthly, the manual might em body the results of research upon the markings of examination, papers done under a variety of circum- stances and by men of differing At the continued hearing of experience and in very different the $7,000 'fraud case yesterday, fields of scholarship. And the re- Leo Guimaraes, one of the two search might well be in part experi- accused, denied all knowledge of mental that 1B to eny. might the alleged den. He also denied examine the results of marking that he entered the room at 6, a done for the purposes of the re- Caine Rond, and posed as search under varying conditions. Folice Inspector. What he did

Viva Voce.

was to threaten to report the Fifthly, the manual might dis-inatter to the Police.

the His resignation from cuss the value and methods of viva

Mr. Shenton said the League was voce examination, which though Roga). Engineers Stores witness founded in 1885, by the Countess of It was an international iharily macticable except for explained by saying that he had Meath. my higher examinations, ie, 1 believe, an offer of $150 a month to go League, aiming to teach children to be kind and unselfish. It support- always desirable as a supplement into the tin business.

Guilherme Guimaraes, aced three Homes for Children at and is nc- to, written examination,

evidence. Ottershaw, Surrey. Hong Kong indicated in examina-cused's brother, gave especially tiens. for professional qualifier le said he had given himself up was one of the branches paying for who cote, each of which cost £30 per tions. Here there is much to ba exonerate his brother.

He had year to keep up. The M.C.L. also said in the way of laying down o was entirely innocent.

not come forward earlier be supported other charitable work. principles and advice.

ruuse he did not think mutters The cardinal rule was "to try to do serious at least one kind deed every day, "would take such

Witness was able to re- and be loving, kind, and useful to

Kong (first Re- others." and the complainant,

system has through their attendance

1 do feel under fire once more courses of instruction.

at the British Commonwealth Eduza- that in the absence of Auch tion Conference, and the question quaintance the examiner runs con- has been put whether examiners siderably more risk of doing in should themselves be examined in justice. I have always judged it their fitness for their highly to be proper to read and mark the responsible task. One representa papers in the light of whatever the London prior knowledge of the candidates tive examiner for

that County Council remarked examiners have never been taught their job, and would welcome some guldance. Can anything be done to help them?

Uniformity.

may have had. The compensatory Sixthly, something might be done process thus brought into play is, towards securing uniformity of turn." no doubt, a very delicate and even standards.. Here there seem to becognise both dangerous one, and adds consider two contributions to be made. The cused) ably to the task of the examiner. manual might introduce to its Weng To-ro. Examiners Grave Responsibilities.readers the method in vogue at

a

Cota

$1,000

Lady May, introduced the League into Hong Kong in 1910, when a Swindle Admitted.

bazaar and feie raised $1,750, The Witness admitted there was bumper year was 1928. when In considering the problem Pro

The task of the examiner in any Harvard in dealing with large' fessor William McDougall saya, in

a swindle, but said his brother $19,460 was collected, sixteen local, a itome paper, my first step was to case makes exacting demands on classes. The method is based on consuli a young man who has both his intellectual and his moral, the assumption of the validity of had nothing to do with it. and nine Home charities receiving

But there can be, normal curve of distribution of de-There were, in fact, no forged assistance.

Allocations to Charity. studied and been much examined qualities. in one American and two English think, very few who do not feel grees of merit. The curve formed notes at all. His share of the was to be

Allocations for that year were:- first markings is "purchase money". universities. His first statement the gravity of the responsibility by the actual

Local Charities. was: "Most examiners are beyond they undertake, knowing as they compared with a normal curve and $1,500, whilst Pang and Yeung

His do that on their decisions hang marks are adjusted to bring it as were each to get $2,000. Wong Nethersole Hospital M.C.L. the help of education." second: "I think the Americas keen hopes and anxieties, that in nearly as possible into correspon- get $500 from, witness. There system al frequent brief written evitably they strongly affect not dence with such a curve. This, ofas no arrangement for his C.M 3. Victoria Home and

brother to enter the room, and Orphanage examinations is better than the only the happiness but the charac- course, does nothing to English one of a few examinations ler and welfare and prospects in uniformity of standards at long intervals, for the former life of the examinees. Yet it must purison of standards obtaining in keeps you up to the mark in your be recognised that when, as in so different departments and. different work." And, in

many cases in this country, an institutions. So far as I can see, protest: "Very few of the students "outside examiner" (who presum-the only way in which the manual have so much character and goodably undertakes his task primarily could contribute to this desirable sense that they do not need this or solely for the sake of the fee, end would be to pubilah sample a task which few, if any, can find papers and their markings (as first, stimulus to stendy work."

class, &c., or £8 These very definitè opinions gave congenial or intrinsically, interest-second, third

Iarge pass" or "plough") approved in me greater confidence in my own ing) sits down to mark a

of papers, written

en se by each

by two view-namely, that examinations, number an generally regarded us at best astudents whom he has never seen perienced examiners of each inst necessary evil, are necessary, but and never will see, with whom he tution from which the papers might Witness alleged that he never St. Joseph's Home...

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not necessarily evil. It all depends has no other acquaintance what on the examiner. Ar it is of the first importance, that the students should have confidence in the Justice and competence of the usminer, and that this confidence should be well founded, Cannol Do Without Examinations.

It is clear, I think, that we can not do without examinations. Even examinations

he selected.

secure com. or

or more

ex-

ciety

it was not necessary for him to C. M. S. Village School

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Cross-examined by Mr.. Fitz-C. M. S. Vernacular Day

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received any of the $5,500. He Blind Home, Pokfulam Setting of Papers. soever, and of whose courses of

was double-crossed by Young. Mrs. Mow Fung's School for Seventhly, the manual might do study he has little or no knowledge,

Rescue Work Kowloon and expecially if he has no eppor something to aid the examiner in Nor did his brother get any-

Boys' Industrial with fellow the setting of the examination thing, so far as he knew.

Home Replying to further ques- tunity to consult examiners over details-under such paper-might lead him to reflections, witness said he could have Hon. Secretary Y. W. C. A. circumstances the demand on both analytically upon the features that

got clear away if he wished, but

(for special relief cases) his morn! and intellectual qualities distinguish a good paper from

Italian Convent is perhaps unduly great.. If poor one, from the point of view wanted to clear his brother.

must be

If we could dispense with them under

an

perhaps,

seems

Buch And

Suggestions.

ex-

He

a

..

The hearing was adjourned | Boys' Industrial Home (Sale- until this afternoon.

sian Institute)

MR. P. A. ROSARIO.

Funeral at Roman Catholic Cemetery.

Total

Home Charities. M. C. L. Ottershaw Homes (Hong Kong Cots).... Trafalgar Orphans' Fund Imperial Merchant Service

Guild Royal Soldiers' Daughters'

Home Orphan Homes of Scotland

(Quarriers)

dren

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The Committee further wish to thank Mr. J. H. Taggart for his

conducted of both parties, the examiner and Auch circumstances the the examinee.

To-day's Methods Haphazard. entirely in the universities we examiner cault and should, I think,

ng the be assisted in some systematic Summing up, I would say that should still need them

organised Justice to the examinees is the foundation of our system of ap fashion;

the Civil Ser-assistance and direction might bo prime desideratum; that towards pointment to rices. The practical question is of considerable service also to the the better attainment of this much Can examinations be improved by, happier, less difficult circumstances may be done by the cultivation of by of the internal examiner dealing science and art of examining; educating and,

The funeral of Mr. Polycarpo with his own students and enjoy that all examiners, and especially examining the examiners?

ing the advantage of consultation those whose lot it is to work In-Antonio Rosario took place at the An Examiner's Experiences.. Reflecting on my own experience, and of comparison and checking of dependently of colleagues, should Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy! be encouraged and perhaps. requir-Valley last evening, and was largely I and that I have taken many results with colleagues.

ed to test the trustworthiness of attended,

The service was conducted by the Shaftesbury Homes (Are- examinations (the number

I venture the following Bug their judgment by the great method

thusa Training Ship) enormous and beyond all reason),

of comparison of results; and to Rev. Fr. R. S. Brookes, and the and given many more to students gestions:-

The aspirant to the very respon-1 seek to increase their efficiency in chief mourners were the deceased's Officers Families Fund

and Leo, Evelina Hospital for Chil- of many types, candidates for the doctor's degree in various selds of sible and exacting task of the the light of such comparisons. two elder sons, Ardian

and

Luiz science and philosophy, Oxford examiner might well be subjected Our present haphazard methods and three brothers, Messrs. Fidelis,

Rosario. Waifs and Strays Greats men, and many others rang- to some test. And this should take demand of the examiner more than Fernando ing down to the members of large the form of requiring him to mark he can properly be expected to give. and his brother-in-law, Reginaldo Other relatives present Xavier.

Total. junior classes in American univer-u number of papers and of com-

were Mesars. P.N., F., H., LA, The number of children members sities. Where do I come out after paring his markings with those of

KINGSFORD SMITH. E.M., and C. Sequeira, and Miss in 1930 on the register was 976, varled experience of other aspirants and with those of all this

E. M. Sequeira.

and the adult members 238. examinations and examners from two or more men of proved

Lands in

Floral tributes were sent by: The Committee desire to express both sides of the grep gulf? As perience and high quality.

The sorrowing wife; the sorrowing their deep gratitude and thanks to examinee I never had any should, further, be required. to

Java.

children; brothers and sisters, and His Excellency and Lady Peel for serious complaints to make against study and compare these markings,

other relatives; from the Union taking so much interest in the either the methods d examination to find the coeficients of correla

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Air Commodore Kingsford Smith

Lusitano, etc.

"At Home" ut Government House the joyed the effort writing the only the extent but also

landed at Cheribon, Java, this even-

to-day. papers, and was well aware of the grounds of the discrepancies re- ing on his flight from Australia to Wireless Ser. England. British stimulus afforded by an examina-vealed,

Test by Expert Examiners.

vice. tion in prospect. I still regard the

The young examifier might be effort both of reparation and of

to prepare execution as of considerable de-effectively selated velopmental vlue. I believe that, himself for his work and for his in the intellecunl as in the athletic own examination or test by a sphere, we ennot attain our fullest manual propared by a small group developmen without from time to of expert examiners. The manual

Mr. Thomas Francis O'Sullivan, i qual donations. time goin into training and con- would, first, seek to display analy-

formerly Bailiff of the Supreme centratin all our energies in atically the chief factors that are

to whose Guests at the Peninsula Hotel, Court, liberty to swear Auprempeffort. As an examiner I involved in excellence of perform- have gerally felt fairly sure that ance by the examinee, to make the Kowloon, during last week were: death early in 1930. was granted on Mr. H. F. Wooster, Mr. L. L. August 1 last, left estate under the my leagues and I have done examiner explicitly aware of the

of the Hong Kong roug justice to our victims. This distinguishable qualities of a writ Crichton, Mr. L. Henwood and jurisdiction condence is founded in the main ten paper that make for merit or family, Mr. D. W, Smith, Mr. and Courts valued at $16,100. Mr.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer op-he fact that, working with com- high marks, qualities or elements Mra. H. W. Shook, Mr G. H. Potts, O'Sullivan previously resided at fent colleagues and reading the such as knowledge of the subject Capt Ede. Mr. J. King, Mr. C. B. 44, Robinson Rand, and probate of

Bohlmann, the will executed in 1927 has been in the House of Commons in an Amo papers Independently, our matter, relevance, width of grasp Morrison, Mr. H. H. markings of those papers have or synthetic power, facility of x-Mr. R. Tyrrell, Mr. H. W. Balley, granted to the widow, Mrs. Mary answer stated that, although it seldom been widely discrepant. In pression, order of presentation, the and family, Mr. D. D. Sharp, Mr. Frances O'Sullivan, of the same was impossible to give exact figures fact, I have often been surprised wit of the examines to make the and Mrs, H. C. Wong, Mr. J. W. address, who is the sole beneficiary of the Foreign Exchange transac Chiu Yuen-shi, alias Yuen Ching, tions by British Nationals in the and gratified to find how nearly most of such knowledge as he Ballantine, Mr: W. Eckert, Mr. and the same they were. I may add possessca.

Mrs. W. H. Murphy, Mr. N. Shalon, a widow, who died at her residence, last three weeks, exhaustive on- that I can recollect no wide and General Rules Necessary. Mr. G. Tare, Mr. M. A. Fox, Mr. 18, Upper Lascar Row, on Septem- quiries showed that among thou- Berious disagreements.

The manual might then discuss D. Kennedy Jardine, Mr. and Mrs.ber 2, 1980, left $25,000, Letters sands of transactions no substan- The Risk of Doing Injustice. the principles upon which merit is F. A. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. M. of Administration have been grant- tial number were British British My varied and fairly large ex- to be awarded to these qualities, Ryan, Mr and Mrs. Walter E.ed to her daughter-in-law Chiu Wireless Service." perience of examining and of being and attempt to lay down general Arndt, Mr. and Mrs. R. Simonetta, Chung-shi, lawful guardian for examined leaves me, then, with a rules for the guidance of all Mr. and Mrs. Errol Johnson, Dr. Chiu Sze-ming, grandson; who is a certain complacency as regards the examiners. Thirdly, it might offer M. P. Cran, Mrs. Wee Chung Woo, minor, 19 years of age. Wong Company, 109, Des Voeux Road, justice of the examination process. advice to all ́examiners: as to the Mra. E. J. Mott, Mr. H. G. Mc- Chiu-shi (daughter), and Chiu Sze- Central, who died in the Canoga at $23,100. I should qualify this by saying ways in which they may hope to Neary, Mr J. F. Manning, Mr. ki (son of Wong Chiu-chi) have Hospital on April 12 last, left estate that practically all of my examin? improve the quality of their work, M C. Elliott, Mr. W. K.. Grove, Mrs. renounced all rights and title to valued for probate

Letters of administration have been Ing has dealt with students with methods such as consultation and A. C. Brunner, Mr. P. P. Robert-administration. whom I had become in some comparison. of markings, with; col- sen, Mr. and Mrs. P. Mapa, Mr. William Loh. Hang Song sold granted to the widow, Kiran Suet-

proprietor of Mesirs. W. Watt and | mura measure personally acquainted leagues, the discussion of dis- and Mrs. 9. Y. Wong.

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