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Business School professors this week invalidated the first question on a November 20 midterm taken by the entire first-year class, announcing they would not grade it because it appeared on a 1978 exam available to students...
...invalidated question had counted for 30 per cent of an exam in "Control," an accounting course required of the approximately 800 first-year students...
...incident has created what Harbus, the B-School's student newspaper this week called a "furor around exam credibility." Vytas Kisielius, the second-year chairman of the student Education Committee, said after the invalidation that "it's extremely disappointing and disorienting for students to find that all this structure that's being imposed on them has glitches in them...
John Dearden, Krannert Professor of Business Administration who helps teach "Control," said yesterday that the faculty decided to replace a different question with the controversial one shortly before the exam. "If there had been more time to decide, the mistake might not have been made," he added...
Students can fulfill QRR, instituted in 1980, by passing both the computer exam and a data analysis test, or by passing Quantitative Reasoning A (QRA). A total of 206 freshmen are enrolled in QRA or one of the introductory computer courses--"Automatic Computing," Applied Sciences 10, and Applied Sciences 11. "Computers, Algorithms, and Programs"--from which a passing grade can be substituted for the computer test...