Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON will distribute a poll for the Massachusetts Senatorial race to students at Harvard and Radcliffe during this evening's dinner meal...
...objective" form of the poll will allow the seminar study committee to feed the answers into IBM machines and codify the results. But members of the Faculty group will also meet and talk with a few very small groups of former seminar participants in order to get a more comprehensive analysis of the program...
...work than studying for a regular exam. The fact that examinations take less work is not, however, the sort of thing one writes on a questionnaire. Other arguments justifying the present system appeared more often, and though they were perhaps no less unexpected than the overall result of the poll, they were a bit more disheartening. The written final, for example, was often defended primarily on the grounds that it prevents cheating. And an examination system with this as its rationale is starting off on the wrong foot...
Regardless of how skillfully exam questions have been devised, no one learns anything when he is bored. Examinations would surely teach more if the questions on them were more interesting. The examinations poll asked for the best single question the student had ever been given on a three-hour exam. Two came up repeatedly: a chemistry question asking the student to make up an extra-credit problem which only ten per cent of the class would be able to answer, and an English question asking the student to characterize himself in the style of different authors studied during the term...
...CRIMSON will distribute a preference poll on the Massachusetts Senatorial race tomorrow evening at dinner in the Union and the House dining halls...