Word: broads
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...Iranscam mess, Attorney General Edwin Meese publicly came to the aid of the Walsh probe on the ticklish issue of its legal validity. The Walsh investigation was challenged two weeks ago in U.S. district court by attorneys for fired National Security Council Aide Oliver North. They asserted that the broad mandate given to the court-appointed special prosecutor under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act is a violation of the constitutional separation of powers...
When Harvard's Economics Department wanted to improve its huge introductory course, Social Analysis 10, researchers did a careful study which compared course objectives to actual results. The analysis showed that students retained broad ideas from the course, but not specific details. As a result, Economics Department instructors revised their teaching stratagies to eliminate much of the technical terminology, which students were forgetting anyway, from the course...
...universities be sure they are successfully teaching their students. But as the assessment efforts have grown in the past few years the question scholars have yet to answer is what constitutes a good education. Is it concentrating on a narrow body of knowledge--the terminology of economics or developing broad interdisciplinary skills as the concepts now emphasized...
Assessment techniques have been the focus of persistent debate among educators. Until recently many experts believed that the broad objectives proposed by assessment advocates were unrealistic with current research tools. "To study how well students are being educated you need a huge amount of data," said Kenneth C. Green, associate director of UCLA's Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP...
...will use its new central role to assist faculties, which have had difficulties in implementing their own computer systems, by developing ways that technology can be used for a broad range of scholarly and administrative purposes, officials said...