Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evaluation under the proposed system would tend to minimize, rather than reinforce, the tensions and hostilities caused by competitiveness among law students. Some competitiveness is inevitable. The proposed system, however, would avoid the most destructive consequences by emphasizing individual development and eliminating the unitary status hierarchy imposed by the current grading system...
...major advantages of the proposed system can be briefly summarized with respect to the functions of grading...
...proposed system would also offer a student far more extensive evaluation of skills in problem solving, writing, group work, analysis, and argumentation than are now measured in exams. Students would no longer feel that many of their abilities were being overlooked, and that the Law School regarded examsmanship as the most important legal skill...
...proposed system would make better use of students innate willingness to work and desire to improve. Top performance would be induced...
...Interest in the work. The student's initial enthusiasm is dampened, as it is now, by ever-increasing tension. A student would know how he was doing, and would retain confidence that he could continue to develop proficiency over three years. In addition, assignments under the proposed system might become increasingly flexible as the year progressed, so that a student could concentrate on points that particularly interested...