Word: factually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiefly the need of judging rightly the original ability of the more brilliant candidates. It is rather the need of encouraging that ability. The type of examination set is important principally because it moulds the attitude of both undergraduates and instructors toward tutorial work. If divisionals demand primarily factual knowledge, the acquisition of facts is likely to become the student's goal...
...inability of mediocre students to deal with speculative questions has been considered a justification for the essentially factual examinations given in most fields. Without doubt the average student will fail to produce a finished essay on this difficult type of test. But that ought not to prevent the inauguration of papers which would test capacity for organizing material and for criticizing general ideas...
Wesleyan's project commends itself for several reasons. Those who take the courses offered will acquaint themselves with the latest additions in factual knowledge regarding the subjects in which they are interested. More important, they will benefit in some degree from the intellectual stimulation which comes with contact with instructors, and from once more-approaching important problems from the academic standpoint. Wesleyan's step is one more witness to the growing realization that education is not a consumption of canned goods, the "transfer of material from the lecturer's notebook to the students", without its passing through the mind...
...tutorial system is to advance for the sake of the average student and become an integral part of his career it must also progress for the honor man. It must allow him a wider scope. He must be tutored and tested before his Senior year for his factual knowledge. Then he must be given the time and the freedom from restrictions to develop his original and critical powers of thinking. A revision of most of the general examinations, the elimination of petty hour examinations, a greater course reduction, and the moving up of the Bible and Shakespeare general examinations will...
...general examinations should be made less factual and more speculative to decrease the emphasis on the extension of detailed knowledge and place it on the development of critical and intellectual powers...