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In their pursuit of academic excellence, the better liberal-arts teachers insist that their students read the original writings of the world's great thinkers and then take essay tests for comprehension of ideas rather than multiple-choice quizzes for recall of facts. This strains both the study time...
To improve and spread this supply the Common Market set up new and detailed regulations for grading and packing garlic (the bulbs must be free of dirt, manure or nongarlic smell) and decided to eliminate gradually all tariffs and import price controls on it. The plan, which was considered with...
"That's a point." I said. "I get paid all of $1350 a year teaching one class three times per week--though I do have to grade all their homework and hold office hours. I have a friend at M.I.T. who is paid $2500 plus tuition just for grading papers...
But an exam is nothing less than a course paper and should be treated as such. At the very least, blue books should be given back to students rather than stowed away. More important, graders should annotate the essays. And, more utopian, hours for conferences between graders and students should...
Admittedly, there are several problems with these suggestions. Graders often have a great many exams to finish in a very short time since grades must be recorded a week after the date of the examination. But such restrictions need not be prohibitive; more men could grade fewer papers or the...