Word: chaunceys
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Among Hanford's former assistants are: Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids; Henry Chauncey, President of the Educational Testing Service; John Hallowell, Headmaster of Western Reserve Academy; Sargent Kennedy, Registrar of Harvard College; Richard Sullivan, President of Reed College in Oregon, and many others...
...Donald E.; Kaltreider, Henry B.; Keohane, Harold J.; King William B.; Kirk, Paul G., Jr.; Leamy, Charles D.; Marmor, Theodore R.; McDonald, Romeo M.; Pohlig, Bradley R.; Robbins, Theodore B.; Righter, John F.; Rhodes, C.; Sakowitz, Robert T.; Soderberg, Jon R.; Vultaggio, Phillip A.; Waterman, George H. III; Walker, Chauncey L.; Barber, John T. (Manager...
...power in U.S. education. It began when three separate groups-the College Entrance Examination Board, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the American Council on Education-decided that one central agency should take over the overlapping testing activities all three were carrying on. Under President Henry Chauncey, 51, onetime assistant dean of freshmen at Harvard, the E.T.S. soon expanded far beyond the college boards. Financed by student fees, test sales and foundation grants, it now handles about 2,000,000 tests a year, coordinates the scholarship activities of more than 100 colleges and universities...
Beyond Facts. No one is more aware of that problem than Henry Chauncey and his 90 experts. Though the E.T.S. does make up essay examinations, Chauncey feels that in such a huge undertaking as the college boards, for instance, the objective question not only covers more ground but can be fully as searching as the essay. Before devising each test, the E.T.S. staff holds long conferences with teachers, professors and experts on the subjects in question. They draw up lists of possible problems, test them out on guinea-pig students, gradually weed out those that are too easy, too confusing...
...having found an economical way of testing whole masses of students, has it sacrificed the individual to a bunch of IBM machines? That, says President Chauncey, is something the colleges and graduate schools must remedy themselves. "It is," says he, "interesting that when colleges first use our tests, almost without exception, they place too much faith in them. We emphatically discourage such dependence. There is no more a right way or wrong way for all colleges to choose their students than there is for all men to choose their wives...