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Contribution
Bovet's first plan in the context of the International Examination Inquiry (IEI) was to analyze the assumingly positive effect of abandoning exams in primary school. Unfortunately for him, the exams were maintained; and he had to change his topic of investigation. So he looked at the role of exams for governing the school systems in analyzing the history of recruit exams in Switzerland that were organized from 1875 to 1913 and reappeared later on. His analysis is multilayered- the functioning of the exams at different periods - the effects of the exams on the school politics in different cantons - the methodology used to standardize the exams For his analysis, he uses both, a quite sophisticated historical approach and methodological consideration coming from experimental pedagogy. He tries to demonstrate why these exams, ithey cannot be any more a motor of school development, even in using complex standardized exams based on psychological methods.We will analyze Bovet's contribution from a triple point of view: as a critical analysis of an early attempt of large scale comparative evaluation of school systems; as an original scientific contribution using systematic methods of inquiry coming from history and experimental pedagogy; as an oeuvre of transition between experimental pedagogy and research in history in a moment where New Education begins to fade out.
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