Word: eurich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: All kudos to Eurich and Wilson for the Current Affairs Test in the magazine for June 29. I hied myself straightway to this town's first TIME-booster, Author August W. Derleth, candidly hoping to catch him with little better than a college average. Despite the fact that he is revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth...
...ALVIN C. EURICH and ELMO C. WILSON...
Most people who have tried to help me prepare current events questions make them too hard or too easy. Testers Eurich and Wilson have erred on the easy side, but they make me wonder whether the current affairs tests which I give to my Current History class of New York City high school teachers each year are too hard...
Late last year TIME asked two young members of the University of Minnesota faculty, Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson, to draft a current affairs test for use in schools and colleges. Testmakers Eurich and Wilson, old hands with an interrogation mark, based their questions on stories which were thoroughly covered by both TIME and U. S. newspapers between Sept. 1, 1934 and Jan. 15, 1935. Just in time for mid-years the examination was completed. Some 60,000 students have tested their knowledge on it. That TIME readers may test theirs, the Eurich-Wilson questionnaire is reprinted...
First thing Authors Eurich and Wilson noted about the returns was the low general average. Out of 105 questions, the ordinary college student could correctly answer 55, the ordinary high school student 44, the ordinary junior high student 36. Second thing the authors noted was the wide range of scores. Surprising were the two students, one in college and one in high school, who correctly answered 100 questions each. Appalling were the high school dullard who could answer but three, the collegian who could answer...