Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Efforts to help this year's class of first-year students include rewriting the study guides for the QRR exams, which students have the option of ordering the summer before they arrive at Harvard...
...review of the Core Curriculum--issued last May at its 10-year anniversary--found a main problem with the QRR to be its "extracurricular" status. Because there is no required coursework unless a student is unable to pass the two exams, undergraduates tend to "focus their attention on passing the tests rather than learning the material," the report concluded...
...attack this problem, Mackay-Smith says, proctors are being told to find out from their first-year students exactly when and how they plan to fulfill the QRR. "Advisors will approach the QRR the same as they approach language requirements...not just say, `Oh yes, and there's a QRR--you better get it taken care...
...addition to the steps taken to ensure the success of the new first-year class, structural changes in the QRR are being considered by the faculty panel that monitors the requirement. Reforms are needed, professors say, because even students who do take the exams seriously might not be learning enough about quantitative reasoning...
...year before that report, an evaluation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges said the QRR did not ensure that students have an adequate "understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning," the very topic that the QRR is designed to address...