Word: self-selection
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...have a suggestion. Why not let students self-select? This would minimize, if not eliminate, any anxiety or typecasting, but would also, if done properly, be a highly effective way of dividing students. Based on the results of the placement test, and perhaps a writing sample of the student’s choice, the Expos program could make an initial, non-compulsory recommendation of what level each student should be placed into. In the first weeks of class, students could get a sense of their section and what is going to be expected of them, and switch into higher...
Again, this oversight should not necessarily preclude any department from giving higher grades than others. Many students self-select into departments that are perceived as more rigorous, such as honors-only social studies...
...advanced course. Although both grades would demonstrate mastery of the material and critical thinking about the topics, the introductory course would work with more basic material and analysis. And not all departments would be expected to end up with the same grade distributions. Some, like music and social studies, self-select because they have higher requirements for their concentrators...
...want to deal with the issue [of women’s social life on campus],” said RUS President Natalia Truszkowska ’04 about the meeting. “We managed to issue a variety of responses that are going to help students self-select into various committees...
...progressive ideals rather than using them as cynical shield against white oppression. Recently she's been saying that her proposed system of cumulatitive voting "promotes a concept of racial group identity that is interest-based rather than biological." Guinier's proposed reforms aim to allow voters flexibility to "self-select their identities" and to vote with other voters who share the same interests, whether they are of the same race or not. Voters should be able to from "self-identified, voluntary constituencies that choose to combine because of like minds, not like bodies." Guinier advertises that cumulative voting will even...