Word: strayer
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Dates: during 1913-1913
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Superintendent Frank E. Spaulding, of Newton, spoke on "The Measurements of Efficiency in Secondary Schools," while Professor George D. Strayer of Teachers' College, Columbia University, gave a very interesting talk on "Is Scientific Accuracy Possible in the Measurement of Efficiency in Instruction...
...view of the important changes which have been introduced into the Harvard requirements for admission in the past few years, it is interesting to note the conclusion reached by Professors Strayer and Thorndike of Columbia, in their recent book on educational administration, as to the value of the results of entrance examinations as tests of fitness to do college work. The conclusion of the Columbia educators, that entrance examinations do not prevent incompetents for getting into college, that they may cause men of real college calibre "to became discouraged, improperly conditioned, or barred out altogether," in short, that they fail...