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Current testing in Africa: Selection or measure of real performance?

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  1. Post-graduate Curriculum Development Project, Kenya Institute of Education, Nairobi, (Kenya)

    Kofi B. Quansah (Expert in Educational Research and Evaluation, African Curriculum Organization and German Agency for Technical Co-operation)

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Quansah, K.B. Current testing in Africa: Selection or measure of real performance?. Prospects 15, 281–288 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02196897

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