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According to a report heard by the Faculty Council yesterday, Ph.D. dissertation advising should be made more uniform across departments...
Last week, a team of three education experts released a report announcing the exam is an inaccurate indicator of teaching ability and should be scrapped in favor of something better. The analysts worked only with the scores of the April and June administrations of the test, since the State Board of Education, with the oversight and prompting of Cellucci, has refused to release copies of the actual test questions. (Education program heads were invited to see, but not take or study, the test under prison-like conditions earlier this fall. No writing utensils were allowed in the room...
Instead, Gov. Wormer--er, Cellucci--has decided to press ahead with this competency exam and add to it by testing current teachers under a similar plan, firing those who don't pass. His response to the report by the three education experts was as follows...
...report, termed a "discussion paper" by the nine-person committee that prepared it, suggested that all departments use committees to advise their Ph.D. candidates, rather than one single adviser...
...While advising committees exist in the majority of departments, there are still several departments that retain the single-adviser model," the report reads. "Such a model concentrates considerable power and responsibility in the hands of one individual and is best avoided...