Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third of last year's freshman class was seriously dissatisfied with General Education Ahf, a survey of student, opinion made by Samuel A. Stouffer, Director of the Laboratory of Social Relations, reveals...
...surprising result of the survey was the apparent superiority shown by Andover and Exeter in their preparation of students for college over other prep schools, most of which did little better than high schools...
...main purpose of the survey was to discover if duplication was a serious problem. Only Andover and Exeter students found major duplication, with 17 percent of them reporting "serious annoyance." Only four percent of other prep school students were annoyed by duplication, while a mere two percent of high schools students reported annoyance...
Andover and Exeter still led the survey in the number of single instances of duplication, with 68 percent complaining...
...With the disappearance--at least for the time being--of English 1, there is not now a survey course in English literature for freshmen. This introduces some complex problems; and since your principal concern is with sophomore tutorial, we hope you will let us pass over them. It should be remembered, however, that survey courses of the older type have been virtually replaced, as distribution, by the courses in General Education. Their value at the moment is largely for concentrators. A careful study of the enrollment in English 1 during the last few years showed that future concentrators in English...