Word: computerize
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The immediate solution was to make the computer and data exams more difficult. For the data test, this meant requiring less "number crunching" and more interpretation by students. For the computer tests, this meant asking students to write slightly more sophisticated programs--requiring loops, for example.
First-year students will also be given an incentive to take the computer exam early by making it easier to get a testing date near the beginning of the year, Mackay-Smith says.
Last year, more than half of all first-year students put off taking the computer exam until the second semester, leaving them fewer opportunities to retake the exam if they failed, says Core Director Susan W. Lewis.
"There is a sense among us that we need to do a better job in teaching people how to think using quantitative methods far beyond what the present requirement actually defines," McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis said in an interview after the 10-year Core report was...
But for now, the QRR staff has been doing its best to accommodate the 400 members of the Class of 1992--this year's sophomores--who did not pass both the computer and the data tests.