How Do You Test a Student?
By underlining the right answer in a multiple-choice test the student can show “scholastic aptitude” and a capacity for college work. But how shall the college judge his common sense and what the student can bring to bear from his own experience, both academic and practical? FRANK D. ASHBURN is headmaster of Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, has served in various capacities on the College Entrance Examination Board, and is at present chairman of its committee studying the current achievement testing program of the Board.