Appendix 3
The School Certificate results
Uganda
Fig.6
The Uganda pattern of Good passes (Fig.6) tends to show that
Kololo students did less well than those at the Aga Khan school.
Kololo, as a much larger school, tended, while it was a mainly
Asian school, to be less selective in its intake.
Implications
There is no evidence here that the English Block work helped
people get good passes. Nevertheless there is no evidence either
that it caused people to fail. Only the kind of experiment which
is perhaps unethical - dividing a group of students into segments
and teaching them with different methods - could produce more
information.
As I mention on page 11, we can only measure what is measurable.
The English Block work was intended to develop some skills which
are not tested by examination boards, and which are perhaps untestable.
The records of the Oral Examination, which some of the students
took, are not kept with the main records. Perhaps this reflects
the greater emphasis and value placed on the written tests.
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