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...review of the Core Curriculum--issued last May at its 10-year anniversary--found a main problem with the QRR to be its "extracurricular" status. Because there is no required coursework unless a student is unable to pass the two exams, undergraduates tend to "focus their attention on passing the tests rather than learning the material," the report concluded...
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 released...
This fall, the faculty group will consider whether to include the QRR as a required course category of the Core, according to Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy Andrew M. Gleason, who heads the QRR committee...
Finding professors and teaching fellows for the courses could be difficult, Gleason said last spring, and a lack of faculty could prevent such a proposal ever being carried out. But should the plan be implemented, the quantitative reasoning area of the Core would offer a number of courses in quantitative methods as they apply to various academic disciplines, Gleason said...