Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night he won the championship from Jack Dempsey. Joe thinks he is the only man living to have two athletic fields named after him: one in his home town of Hoigate, Ohio, the other at U.C.L.A., which has made him an honorary undergraduate (Joe never got beyond the ninth grade...
Burns & Allen Show (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Addlepated nonsense from Grade Allen...
...remember points which never appeared in their course material at all. The reason is each language department includes a one-hour objective proficiency test with its examination of the course material. But unlike most of the language departments, the German department rests a good deal of the student's grade on his performance in the proficiency exam...
...fact, last term students in German C and D who did not edge past 560 on this test could not, with a few exceptions, receive a mid-year grade higher than C plus, even though they might have diligently studied all of the assigned work. This is unfair to the conscientious student since the memorization of a twenty-page vocabulary list can bring a high proficiency test score to someone who never attended a class or prepared the assignments. The German department claims that students' grades on the proficiency exam are almost directly proportional to their scores on the course...
Students taking intermediate courses in other languages do not encounter this problem. Though the Spanish and other departments give the proficiency test along with the final exam, they do not consider the scores when figuring their grade lists. Instead, these departments use the tests as a gauge to judge in absolute terms the success of their teaching methods for the expiring term...