Word: exam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House discrimination: In 1974, three students complained to the Commission that Professor of English Robert J. Kiely gave Adams House students and students who attended his office hours an unfair advantage in preparation for the final exam in his English 166 course...
...complainants said that Kiely gave away important information--such as the exam format and examples of questions--and said those who didn't go were discriminated against...
...investigation, the COI compared grades of those with the additional information to the grades of those without for the final exam, midterm, and paper. It found that the midterm and paper grades of those with the information at the final were slightly lower than those without. The final exam grades of the students with the additional information, however, were nearly one-third of a grade higher (i.e., B to B-plus...
Sure, in theory it's nice if the University trusts its students enough to remove proctors from exam halls. But no student should have to feel, in the midst of frenetic spewing in his blue book, that he should be simultaneously monitoring his neighbor's wandering eyes...
Though the College invited students to serve on the CRR when it was reconstituted this past spring, students again refused, citing time constraints during what was then exam period...