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...give admissions directors an objective measure of the students' ability as a corrective to variable grades from their schools. But the SAT has been a target of educators and laymen alike in the long-standing battle over the value of standardized tests. Now a new book subjects the exam to the most withering blast yet. In None of the Above (Houghton Mifflin; $16.95), Author David Owen charges that the SAT is badly conceived, badly written, easy to beat if you know how, and all but worthless as a measure of preparation for college...
According to Russell, the club provides a service to the aviation community by running a "Ground School," a two-day course--addressing such diverse topics as engine function, meteorology and aerodynamics--that prepares students to take a written exam necessary to start pilot training...
...passive. Professors rely excessively on the lecture. Seminars are often consumed by dull recitations of student work. Discussion groups are typically led by graduate students who lack experience in teaching, especially by the discussion method. Granted, students are challenged to think for themselves in preparing for exams and writing papers. But all too often, exam grades come back with little or no explanation while term papers return with only a few hastily scribbled comments...
...University of Georgia, was feted in the capital last year. Some of the home front's angriest protesters have reached a separate peace with society: Weather Undergrounders William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, fugitives until December 1980, are married and live in New York; last year Dohrn passed her bar exam. Other veterans of the era have gone about building new lives, less turbulent but often still inspired by the idealism or commitment of the war years. Here is an update on some of them...
...question exam, given four times a year, tests students' knowledge of data interpretation, hypothesis testing, and extrapolation and interpolation, according to Molay...