Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essays are either very critical or very complimentary of present exams. Only one rejects the exam entirely as an educational devios. Eselly the most prevalent theme in the book is the contrast between the exam as a means of rating students and the exam as on educational tool. Most of the professors concestrate on the educational possibilities of leating, delineating their own personal personal theories about how to to obtain the greatest possible educational effect...
James Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, also seriously questions the present exam system, suggesting that professors "should not be constrained to organize in a predetermined way." Rather, he would prefer to be able to adjust to the individual student.k...
Except for Buck's offering which traces the history of exams at Harvard the rest of the essays approach the problem from different angles but off discuss primarily how the exam can be utilized best educationally...
Dean Ford writes that a "good examination to European history... offers the student a chases to see his knowledge of facts learned relating them wherever possible to arms and periods outside the specific subject of the course." In his opinion the exam should become "a teaching tool in its own right...
...substitute teaching job; a third of all New York teachers are substitutes, too many of them thrown into the difficult schools that veterans are allowed to avoid. Yet to get a regular teaching license in New York City requires not only a state certificate but also a special city exam given by the powerful board of examiners, a fusty fief run by nine old-minded men. "An Einstein who was also a Professor of Educational Methods at Harvard University could not get a regular position as a teacher of science in New York City without taking the examination," wrote Cleveland...