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University language placement tests are not indicative of the content of introductory foreign language courses, Edward J. Geary, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday. Students would do better on exams reflecting the reading speed and language creativity stressed in University courses, Geary said...
...Placement tests currently given in lower-level courses were taken from the old College Board language exams. The one-hour, multiple-choice tests stress the matching of synonyms and vocabulary to the exclusion of an ability to write or speak in the language...
Peace Corps Placement Tests will be given at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, in Memorial Hall...
Father Lombardi's book, which received the approval of his Jesuit superior and an imprimatur from a local auxiliary bishop, has not been ordered withdrawn from print. But Vatican officials agreed that only placement on the Index could have been a sterner rebuke. Murmuring that his book was only the opinion of a "simple priest," Father Lombardi affirmed his loyalty to the church and retired to silence. Said one Vatican cleric: "Only the Pope is God's microphone...
...unemployed youngsters in everything from job hunting to repairing electric toasters and preparing for civil service exams. In the evening, it teaches new skills to 3,100 adult students. Moreover, some of Dunbar's teachers have their own outside businesses and hire graduates. "Our problem is not placement," says Dunbar's Assistant Principal Everett M. Renfroe. "It's training more people." Nor do Renfroe and his colleagues fear automation. "We don't think of it as wiping out jobs," says Renfroe, "but as creating new ones...