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Women and girls campaigned to write exactly the same examinations as boys and men - in a kind of judo move, turning examination infrastructures against their opponents. Assignments saw students looking up where one could hire someone to write one's test, comparison shopping at essay mills for the cheapest "B" grade papers, and asking how many students used "smart drugs" on important examinations. Sameness, schools, and satire: James Elwick: Making a grade: Victorian examinations and the rise of standardized testing. I Making a Grade i notes some cases in which examinations were subsequently used as evidence to criticize or censure examiners who put unfair questions on their tests; in one case, a physiology examination was subsequently shown to have no actual questions about physiology. [Extracted from the article] |
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