Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teach students to think. Because pedagogues lack even the means of finding out whether students can think, Professor Tyler and colleagues spent three months thinking up a test of thinking. Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it. The examinees were 1,407 high-standing students, trying for 34 University of Chicago scholarships...
...test, found that students thought about as fuzzily as he had expected. Only 42% could make sense of the literary passages and even fewer had any notion of what Poet Stevens was driving at; 75% believed that the poem was an argument for temperance. Similarly, the students as a group scored only 47% on literary information, 42% on scientific information. They did better (57%) on a section of the test in which their memory for facts counted. Examinees were found to have many superstitions: 70% believed that daughters resemble their fathers more than their mothers; 60% that if a dominant...
Stock of Boeing Airplane last week sold at $22, down 35% from $35 last January; Consolidated Aircraft sold at $20¾, down 19% from $25½; Douglas Aircraft at $63, down 20% from $79. Aircraft stocks as a group were down a little more than 14% from their 1939 highs compared to a drop of a little less than 14% by the average of all industrial stocks -a fine performance for supposedly promising new war babies during an era of rearmament...
...entire upperclass group who tutor, 22 per cent received scholarships or hold outside jobs, 3 per cent lower than the Freshmen who tutor, received through the Student Employment Office. 29 per cent of the commuters who tutor hold scholarships, 12 per cent of those who live in boarding houses and who tutor receive scholarships...
...average ranking of the upperclassmen who tutor is above the college average. Those who tutor rank slightly higher than Group...