Abstract
State-mandated systems of comprehensive examinations to be taken prior to high school graduation would focus the attention of students in high school, motivate them to higher levels of performance, provide guidance to teachers as to the appropriate material to be covered, and reduce antieducational pressures within peer groups, all of whose members would share a common objective.
Notes
1My discussion of Wößmann's findings draws explicitly from the introduction to this book prepared by West and Peterson.