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...husband Robert, seemingly content with his own status as a police sergeant, had to coax her into bucking for each promotion. In 1980, when as a detective she was prematurely transferred out of the burglary division because she was a woman, Watson retaliated by taking the civil-service exam for lieutenant. She says, "I had extreme determination that I would be promoted out of that situation...
...comment that I don't take things as seriously as I did my first year, I meant that I would no longer get stressed out to the point of crying during an exam. This does not mean that I do not take academics seriously, and I believe my academic record is evidence of this...
...will probably be a psychological exam to test for neurotic behavior in the 15-18 year old age group...
...March that the verbal section of the SAT measures test-savvy, not reading ability. He found that 172 college students correctly answered, on average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading the test selections. Many colleges, notably in the Midwest, are turning to the rival ACT exam, put out by the American College Testing Program. That 3-hr. battery of exams claims to measure student skills in four curriculum areas: English, reading, science reasoning and math...
...currently under development in Brookline, Mass., students play reporters who "investigate" a story from classical mythology under the direction of a computerized editor and their homeroom teacher. Then the youngsters write a story on what they have discovered. ETS is also working with computers to redesign the National Teachers Exam, used in 34 states to license prospective educators. The company's proposed test for fifth-grade math teachers would measure not only the exam takers' knowledge of the subject but their understanding of how fifth-graders learn...