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...Citystep students passed their exam with flying colors as they acted out a day in the life of a 10-year-old playing hookey from school. Weaving in and out of an oversized erector set for the stage, the kids and their teachers danced their interpretations of events from a city life, ranging from a gang fight to trying on a new pair of shoes...
...students, the problem of feedback poses special problems in the hectic environment of a research university. Yet ingenuity may produce ways of improving feedback without requiring unreasonable amounts of faculty time. Greater efforts can be made to train graduate students to give more helpful, detailed comments on papers and exams. Professors can supply model answers or analyses of exam questions to explain the elements of a competent answer. Computers open up impressive opportunities for allowing students to test their comprehension of new and difficult material. These possibilities only underscore the need for more collective thought to find ways of giving...
...this year's exam, Princeton University finished second, with the University of California at Berkeley garnering third place...
Putnam Fellow Poonen said he knew that he had done well when he finished the exam. The freshman from Winchester, Mass. received a silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad last year...
...council report may be released as early as mid-May, but intensive ACSR meetings during reading and exam periods are "absurd from the point of view of students," McLeod said...