Word: qrr
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...reaccreditation report, offers a rare outside critique of the Harvard undergraduate experience. In particular, the report singles out several weaknesses in University education: the minimal student-faculty contact, the superficiality of Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), the absense of mathematics teaching in the Core and the little academic advising students receive...
...report's most pressing curricular concern is the failure of the QRR and the absence of mathematical instruction in the Core Curriculum. "The current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of manipulative skills, much less an understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning and the essence of mathematics as a discipline," the report reads...
Harvard professors say they are aware of this problem. "We said [to the evaluators] from the outset that both students and some faculty were also concerned about" the QRR, says Lewis...
Lecturer in Economics Jeffery Wolcowitz says he agrees with the conclusions of the report as they relate to the QRR. "It is true that the present QRR requirements are not at a very high level," he says. "There has been some discussion to upgrade the program," says Wolcowitz, who is a member of the subcommittee of the Core on the QRR...
Wolcowitz says that such revisions could take the form of more challenging quantitative requirements or a third science Core requirement on mathematics. "There is no sense that the QRR specifically teaches any mathematical disciplines such as calculas," he says...