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Contribution
The French Committee attended the four Carnegie conferences on examinations and provided from 1931 to 1938 a substantial contribution to this International Examination Inquiry, by carrying out an appraisal of the Baccalauréat, the exam that secondary school pupils had - and still have - to pass to be allowed to go to University. In quite an unexpected way, this study, directed by Henri Laugier, showed very clearly that the kind of examining commonly used by the examiners of the Baccalauréat was markedly unfair.
In this paper, we first detail the substance of the French Committee contribution, then we describe the tensions between the members of this committee regarding the degree of importance that it had to be granted to the result of their appraisal of the Baccalauréat. We ultimately show that these tensions very suitably reveal the state of mind of the then French community of educators, who had to face a radical reorganization of their work.
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