Analysis of Aims and Content as a Basis for Assessment of School Courses.

The article presents the analysis of aims and content as a basis for assessment of school courses. It states that the upper secondary level educationists are seeking to devise ways of assessment that will break the ordeal of the terminal examination, with its deleterious repercussions upon teaching and upon the pupils. It also mentions that the argument has centered mainly round aims, at the educational level of even greater interest are objectives. Much of what is conceived of as aims is useless unless it is made operational, and spelled out with some precision and exactness. Objectives must be elaborated in relation to a starting-point, in relation to various intermediate stages along the progression, and finally to the ultimate aim.