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In an e-mail to me, senior Expos preceptor Gordon Harvey outlined some reasons why Expos 20 is not sectioned according to ability or experience: “I guess I’d say that the potential advantages don’t seem worth the difficulties and drawbacks.?...
I think it’s time to reexamine this cost-benefit analysis. Among the potential drawbacks to a tracked expos system, Harvey suggested that because Expos is intended to impart a “body of basic concepts and values pertaining to academic writing at the college level,?...
These points are all well taken. But the true value of a tracked Expos classes would not come from harder or easier assignments, but rather from the benefit of being grouped with peers close to one’s own background level. The Expos program prides itself on encouragingâ?...
I have a suggestion. Why not let students self-select? This would minimize, if not eliminate, any anxiety or typecasting, but would also, if done properly, be a highly effective way of dividing students. Based on the results of the placement test, and perhaps a writing sample of the student?...
There is, in fact, just this sort of system in place in the mathematics department for determining who takes Math 55, Math 25 and so on—and it seems to work extremely well. There is no reason why a modified version of the mathematics department’s...