Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Educational Policy Committee's new plan for a wide system of advanced standing and placement continues this tradition. The proposals fail only where they tend to make education a three-year process, by providing for the admission of certain students as sophomores...
...plan's heart is a thorough revision and expansion of the present placement system. Too often, students waste time in courses beneath their ability simply to satisfy prerequisite requirements. The Committee's proposals call for the administration of placement tests in languages, English, mathematics, history, and science to determine the level at which a student should work. But no provision is made for the use of essay tests to supplement the objective techniques used at the present time. Such tests are necessary, for in addition to measuring writing ability, they could weigh a student's grasp of concepts, not facts...
Merely providing a placement system is not enough. The Committee realizes that no incentive can ever prod the student who is so grade-conscious that his intellectual curiosity is dead. But it has sensibly asked that grade requirements for scholarship holders electing advanced courses be reduced. In the past, the fear of low grades and a resulting reduction of scholarship stipends has been a main factor in keeping these men from taking courses that tax the limits of their abilities...
...Educational Policy Committee's report on advanced standing, providing for the admission of exceptional students as sophomores, and charting a broad new placement system, was outlined yesterday by its chairman, Dean Bundy. The plan will go before the faculty Tuesday...
Five major points are covered in the report. Affecting the most people is a greatly strengthened and enlarged placement system designed to give incoming students the opportunity to work at as advanced a level as they are capable. The Committee recommends that placement tests be given in English, history, languages, mathematics, and science. A sufficiently-high grade on a placement test would secure exemption from elementary level courses in any of these fields...