Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the material gathered on the student's "general calibre," interest in various types of activities, and aptitude for, specific operations Dyer attempts to discover which one of the fields of concentration comes closest to fitting the student...
...making predictions, Dyer attempts to pick the essential characteristics in ability and interest which distinguish a student in one field from one in another, and also which distinguish the honors students in the field from the non-honors students...
Many times, after Dyer has made his suggestions, a student will come into his office complaining that he is not at all interested in any of the fields. Dyer then attempts to find another field which interests the student and yet ties in with his ability. Dyer points out, however, that interest correlates with ability only "fairly well," and that often a student will be vitally interested in a field but will have no ability...
...Dyer is very careful to emphasize that this prediction process is "still in the research stage. There is not enough data yet to give up a great deal of confidence in the interpretation of these times." "However," he says, "we have reached a point so that in the next few years we may be able to put our results in a form available to all freshmen advisers to help them help the student in his choice of concentration...
...Dyer is particularly interested in concentration advice because he feels strongly that "students select fields of concentration for irrelevant reasons. They go into a field because their room-maters are in it, or because they think it prepares them for a graduate school or a profession...