Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though confusion seems to dominate the entire QRR operation, one absurd fact has emerged from beneath the mountain of tangled print-outs in the Science Center basement: Almost 200 freshman face a term on academic probation if they do not return to school early next fall and pass an exam which they failed to knock off during the past nine months...
...interesting aspect of the QRR mess is not whether proctors do or don't give improper assistance during the administration of tests, though this has understandably been a hot topic of conversation among freshmen Attention should in instead be focused on why a fundamentally good idea has resulted in such havoc...
...SEVERAL UNDERGRADUATE teaching assistants have pointed out, students share some of the blame for the problems with the QRR. Freshmen are asked to complete two straightforward exams, which test little more than whether they spent a few hours reading and memorizing readly available manuals on data integration and simple programming. The exams were given many times since September and apparently if you were any where close to getting the right answer on the actual computing exercise, people were around to give you a helpful above...
...people to report for tests on specific days, they tossed around ridiculous threats about forced withdrawals When one Freshman Dean's Office administrator said that no one who failed to meet the requirement in its in its maiden run year was actually singed by the Ac Pro brand, a QRR functionar, that as far as he knows, this year's delinquents will get burned, even if they enroll in a semester-long course on introductory computer programming...
...would like to comment on your recent article "Freshmen Complain About QRR Testing." Speaking on behalf of those who administer the tests. I admit that we do on occasion give more help than we should, or accidentally answer questions that shouldn't be answered. We are only human, and, at least I personally, feel had when someone gets 95 percent through a program and then gets stuck just on the verge of finishing...