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Most importantly, the gradation scale of the current survey should be expanded to allow students to assess more specifically the quality of their courses. The current scale of one to five does not meet this end, since most students never give scores of less than three, especially to instructors. Expanding the present scale to a range of one to seven would allow students to provide more detail in their evaluations, which in turn would provide the teaching staffs with the helpful information that they’re looking...
...evaluative criteria in the survey should assess the expense of materials required to take a course. As we have repeatedly commented, the costs for textbooks, course packs, and sourcebooks are more outrageous than ever, for a variety of reasons. It’s only fair that students should be allowed to voice their discontent over high costs associated with particularly pricey courses. This evaluation would alert teaching staffs who might not otherwise be aware of the problem that their course materials were unpalatably expensive...
...Most of the comments in the punch book assess the potential members’ social skills and enthusiasm for the club. The Isis members who posted comments appear to prize punches who are “cute” and “classy”—and who can balance an array of extracurricular commitments...
Perhaps the best yardstick to assess the outlook for the later years is the defined-benefit pension, long the gold standard for retirement because it guarantees a fixed income for life. The number of such plans offered by corporations has plunged from 112,200 in 1985 to 29,700 today. Since 1985, the number of active workers covered in the private sector declined from 22 million to 17 million. They are the last members of what once promised to be the U.S.'s golden retirement era, and they are fast disappearing. From 2001 to 2004, nearly 200 corporations...
...Professor of Health Care Policy David Blumenthal ’70 and Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy Sara Rosenbaum will use the award—which was granted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—to lead a team of experts in assessing different standards of health IT measurement. “[We are] trying to move those standards into technical language and measures,” Blumenthal said. “[We’re] try[ing] to translate standards into measurement tools.” The contract comes on the heels...