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SCHOOL examinations have long been accepted as a fact of life in Britain and elsewhere. In Britain externally devised and scored examinations like the GCE have themselves become almost a tradition. Teachers and others concerned with education have argued for a long time that such external examinations are against the best interests of our educational system and certainly against the best interests of the pupil. Yet the need for a valid appraisal of achievement has been recognized and has usually overcome the arguments of those who fear the constraint.
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CHOPPIN, B. Item Bank using Sample-free Calibration. Nature 219, 870–872 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219870a0
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