See for example, OlsenF. J.“Failure in First Year University Examinations”. Australian Journal of Education, Volume 1, No. 3, November, 1957. RaynerS. A. “Report on Education”. Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 2, No. 3, Nov. 1958. LeaperG. W. “University Lecturers, Failure Rates, and the Murray Report”. Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, April, 1959.
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HamiltonThomas H.BeachmanEdward (editors), The Basic College of Michigan State. East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1955. An account of the origins, development, curricula, and organisation of the Basic College. Chapter VI, on Evaluation, covers examinations.
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For examples of the test construction procedures used by the Board of Examiners at Michigan State, see Dressel, Paul L., and Members of the Board of Examiners, Comprehensive Examinations in a Programme of General Education. East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1949.
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For a rather full account of the development of the Office of the University Examiner in the University of Chicago see The Idea and Practice of General Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. Chapter II.
