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Another caveat is that most classes here test knowledge through essays. Even in biology or chemistry, one will be confronted with short-answer explanations or molecules that must be synthesized from scratch. However, students at large public universities often take tests in multiple-choice format, a fundamental difference in testing that will lead to fundamentally different grading...
...show's three rounds require that competitors answer esoteric questions under bizzare categories. A contestant is eliminated with each round, until one person is left to compete against Stein in a best-of-10 questions format...
...virtue of the Core program's oversight, Core courses are reviewed for consistency in grading policies and student workload. Students benefit from Core resources that may not be available to them through departments. Most important, Core classes provide students with an introduction to an approach to knowledge in a format uncharacteristic of standard departmental introductory courses. Surely The Crimson does not wish to propose a program whereby a student would wander from survey course to survey course in hopes of achieving an appropriate "distribution." We will assume that the Crimson meant to advocate the opportunity for students with background...
...larger classes here Harvard. As the staff editorials on this page in the past week have made abundantly clear, students resent the Core program. This resentment is not based on the desire to reduce our graduation requirements, but rather on a dissatisfaction with Core classes' large lecture format. The great advantage of replacing the Core program with a distribution requirement is that the latter would allow students to take smaller--or perhaps simply more focused--courses in which both the professors and the teaching fellows are enthusiastic about the material...
...said the experiences of students under the old house system--in which parents chose from among widely differing educational programs for their children--and those of students under the new redesign can only be accurately compared once the the first full class to study under the "small school" format graduates...