CHAPTER VI
TESTS AND TESTING A.
i. Testing and learning are two aspects of a single process. 2. Some kind of test, practical or scholastic, has
been associated with education from the earliest times, whether it was the education of the Indian boy in the use of the bow and arrow, the young Chinese in the memorization of the sayings of Confucius or the American child in the mastery of the English language . 3. The setting of goals to the learning process, however tentative and partial they may be, implies a program of testing or appraisal of some
kind. 4 . In the schools the test or examination has always played a prominent role both as a teaching device and as a measure of scholastic accomplishment. In its more refined forms it may also possess some value for the long-time guidance and 86