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Peer reviewedD'Costa, Ayres – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1991
Analyzes the evolution of Chinese national examinations with the "catastrophe" model. Goals, content, form, and process of exams were influenced by social and political forces. Competence over 4,000 years of Chinese history was defined as military prowess, Confucian-style scholarship, Western-style military expertise, proletarian…
Descriptors: Asian History, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Models, Measurement Techniques
