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Most importantly, the gradation scale of the current survey should be expanded to allow students to assess more specifically the quality of their courses. The current scale of one to five does not meet this end, since most students never give scores of less than three, especially to instructors. Expanding the present scale to a range of one to seven would allow students to provide more detail in their evaluations, which in turn would provide the teaching staffs with the helpful information that they’re looking...
...students scoring higher? Yes and no. The results of the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress were the first since broad implementation of No Child Left Behind. On a 500-point scale, fourth-graders improved on average by 1 point in math and 3 points in reading over 2003's results. Eighth-graders scored 1 point higher in math but 1 point lower in reading...
...more normal living areas,” such as the Currier Ten Man suite, the Lowell Bell Tower, and Eliot’s Ground Zero, will receive $200 reimbursements for hosting a party instead of the typical $100 party grant The UC has compiled a list of these large-scale party spaces, but students may apply to have their rooms added to this pre-approved list. And while the UC decided to differentially grant $200 to three “Super Parties” each week, it will still allot $100 to seven normal parties. “Party funds...
Summers said he has asked David T. Ellwood ’75, dean of the Kennedy School of Government and the Black Professor of Political Economy, to “lead the discussion” about future University response to large-scale disasters...
...trials outside Port Kembla harbor in June. (A rival system called Pelamis, using 120-m-long hinged cylinders, was successfully tested in Scotland in April.) Once commissioned, Energetech's plant is expected to feed into the local grid enough clean power for 500 homes. Energetech is developing several commercial-scale projects from Israel to Rhode Island. Wave energy, Denniss says, is "more consistent, predictable and concentrated than wind. It's also inexhaustible." Having studied the ocean's power all his life, he's in no doubt that it will soon be turning on our lights...