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Behind the bandstand, over by a string of boxcars parked on a siding, Bill Cameron, 17, of Orange, Vt., and his father Enoch, 71, are standing back-to-back in the wet grass, practicing their competition tunes. The two Koehler girls from Westfield, Mass., ten-year-old Gretchen and seven-year-old Rebecca, skitter about giggling until their mother Shirley tells them to get down to business and start practicing. They are astonishingly good. Shirley, who is a nurse, says that neither she nor her husband Jim, a welding engineer, is at all musical. The girls started playing the violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: A Fiddlers' Contest | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

After Bruin Cameron Tuttle knotted the game at two, the see-saw battle continued when Harvard's Carrillo launched a bomb on the Brown goal, putting the ball in from, literally, a quarter-field away. The shot stunned both teams, and as the ball sailed under the crossbar, Carrillo raised her fist and emphatically punched the cool night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Capture Ivies; Greeley MVP | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...expanding the so-called "truth-in-testing" provision to all states, and a House of Representatives subcommittee will hold hearings this week on whether to require disclosure by federal law. In the words of none other than the College Board's executive director of research and development, Robert G. Cameron, truth in testing "has gone a long way in de-mystifying...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Butting Heads With the Test Makers | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...calls ineffective, and long-term "intensive training," which it now concedes can raise scores. Before making this distinction, Slack and Porter say, ETS misled students into thinking that even a school year's worth of special preparation would not affect math or verbal aptitude as measured by the SAT. Cameron of the College Board agrees that his organization has shifted its rhetoric on the effects of long-term coaching, but he denies any deliberate misrepresentation, saying, "We came to the realization that the distinction was not clear to students." He joins ETS vice president Rex Jackson in maintaining that short...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Butting Heads With the Test Makers | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...counters that the studies in question didn't use proper control groups. Slack and Porter argue that they compensated for this in their analysis, adding that ETS itself quotes studies lacking concurrent controls when the findings suit its ends. Not so, responds Cameron, who accuses his critics of allowing "social aims" to shape their research and makes passing reference to the fact that Slack was a classmate of Ralph Nadar's at Princeton in the early 1950s, "and maybe that means something...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Butting Heads With the Test Makers | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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