Word: feedbacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maverick among designers, Kamali refuses to do fashion shows, feeling they stroke designers' egos more than they benefit customers. Often Kamali waits anonymously on customers. In that role, she gets honest feedback on her clothes: "You know instantaneously if you're right on target or if you're not with what people need and want." Kamali believes she has heard the message: she's going to keep on sweating. -By Georgia Harbison
...their part, secondary school counselors don't seem to think Harvard has much to worry about. Ralph Ferrara, head of the college office at Stuyvesant High School in New York, who first heard of the Klitgaard report on television, says it's hard to get enough feedback from his 800 students to know if the report had affected them. While he notes that many minority students are seeking a small school, where they can receive closer attention, Ferrara doesn't think the report alone tarnished Harvard's reputation...
Last April, for example, a student-faculty committee headed by Frank I. Michelman. Professor of Law, issued its first report on grading and teacher feedback. It recommended that students be graded on a pass-fail basis for the first semester of their first year, and that professors make a greater attempt to work with students, by using practice tests and more section leaders...
Most of the 48-page report is devoted to increasing feedback to students about their "academic progress." In this area, the report recommends greater use of written exercises and increased hiring of student teaching assistants...
Sacks refused to comment on the report, but said he was in favor of additional feedback to students and reduced pressure in the first year. "I will join in any effort to pursue these purposes," he added...