Word: seminar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard this issue, among others, is being addressed by sixty leading educators who meet once a month as part of a Seminar on Assessment. These scholars, who began meeting in September, are assessing the effectiveness of various aspects of the University, ranging from specific academic programs to the role of extracurricular activities in student life...
...Seminar, which was established by President Bok last spring, is part of an explosion of interest in educational evaluation. Fueled by several recent reports criticizing the nation's colleges and universities for failing to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs, these assessment programs range from the more open ended and scholarly like Harvard's to very specific state mandated standardized tests...
Levi's freshman seminar is the only one thisyear in which only one student participates...
Although the official description of Levi's seminar said that two or three students would be accepted, Levi said he selected only Kariko out of the four freshmen who applied because she had working experience in natural history. Kariko worked withmongooses in Jamaica last summer and has helpedraise tamed bobcats...
...Kariko said she is not intimidated workingindividually with the arachnology expert. "He'svery approachable," she said, adding that she hasjoined Levi and his wife on field trips andattended spider seminar lunches with Levi andgraduate students