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Generations of children who sat through endless lessons of “chalk and talk” in front of a bossy teacher can take some relief. But the “chalk and talk” method helped them achieve better exam results. Modern classroom techniques may make school days a good deal happier, but satisfaction is not the road to success in examinations, according to university researchers.

Their three-year study, monitoring the progress of 2000 teenagers, tried to measure the influence of the “boredom factor” in 17 selected schools in the north of England. The researchers also found that the old-fashioned approach of teachers ordering pupils about is still alive and producing results. Their conclusions were welcomed yesterday by educationists who were worried by the shift to less formal lessons.

The pupils in the latest study were asked to award teachers marks to measure how frequently they followed or ignored today’s fashion for “child-centered” education. A five-point scale was given to spot the teachers who always told them what they should know and what to write down. “It was significant and not anything you would get by chance or accident. Certainly, when you compare the pupils’ interest and attitude to school, there is a quite definite and highly significant difference,” one of the researchers said. But the rankings were turned upside down when the team of four researchers looked at how the children did in examination. The sort of methods now frowned upon (不赞同) actually improve the final grades.

The researchers said, “There is nothing wrong with old-fashioned, didactic(说教*的) teaching in the fight place, even if it isn’t the flavor at the moment.” However, they insisted the best teachers had always mixed the two techniques to match the needs of pupils, although certain examinations forced some to concentrate more on dictation and learning by rote(死记硬背).

54. University researchers have discovered that _________.

A. modern teaching methods provide students with entertainment

B. students taught by modern techniques are happy and successful

C. traditional teaching methods help students get higher score

D. students like old teaching better than modern teaching at school

55. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that ____________.

A. child-centered education promotes friendship among children

B. the research findings are not significant enough for a conclusion

C. those who show greater interest in school did better in exams

D. those not showing much interest in school may turn out to score higher in tests

56. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?

A. The Examination-based Teaching