Word: criteria
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Official Harvard has been concerned with the interview. Glimp emphasizes the decreasing reliance on objective criteria, and the growing importance of arbitrary, or non-objective, standards. Questions such as "Who would flourish in the bottom fourth of his class?" and "Who can get the most out of Harvard?" are hard to answer. In an attempt to remedy this defect, Dean K. Whitla, Director of the Office of Tests, has been experimenting with a 20-22 question interview conducted with the aid of a tape recorder. The new interview was used by 50-60 boys in various parts of the country...
...said that women's education had to be as bad as men's before it could get better. Perhaps that time has come. If so, it will be facing courageously with all our talents and all our skills the questions that need to be answered to discover the criteria and the techniques needed for the good life. --Mary I. Bunting (Inaugural Address...
...unsatisfactory program could perfectly well be offered for reasons unrelated to the needs of students for whom it is given. Whether this is actually the case remains moot. The relations to national A.P. programs has continued to dictate the use of standardized tests instead of the more sophisticated criteria used, for example, in determining admission to the College...
...triple aims of promoting advanced placement, creating a three-year program, and enlivening the first year for well-prepared students has severely restricted the program by establishing highly diversified criteria of success. More important, it created complex demands on the mechanical operation of the program which made it very difficult to relate the program to actual educational requirements of undergraduates. The blanket decision to treat the new students exactly like Sophomores solved many uneasy administrative problems which would have been left open by a more student-oriented policy...
...real reason why none of this data exists is that there is nothing approaching consensus on what it would mean if it were compiled. Criteria are no more available than the data...