Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of our examinations are adapted to acertain little except knowledge, which tends to promote mere cramming; whereas the tests in the grass school of active life depend rather upon the ability to use information Surely examinations can be framed to measure not only knowledge, but the ability to comprehend and correlate what is known. In short, to test the grasp of a subject as a whole...
...Heroes Vexed," p. 13]. The scar-bedecked men travelers see in Germany are not of the army, but university students and graduates. These, as members of rival fraternities, challenge each other to duels just as here a football team of one university plays against another. It is a test of nerve. Skill is of course also essential; the unskillful carries his mark for life. But he is proud of having gone through the ordeal, and ordeal...
...group of railroads. It was agreed by both parties, however, to take their dispute to the new Board of Mediation as soon as President Coolidge appoints it. Thus will the strike-preventing machinery of the railway-labor bill recently passed (TIME, May 24) be promptly put to use and test...
...test was designed to bring from the student not merely knowledge of what is going on in the world from day to day as disclosed in the newspapers but also his understanding of the significance and the connection of these events as material of history in the making...
...replacement of ubiquitous hour examinations by theses whenever appropriate would certainly add to the total of a student's understanding. And by giving these reports equal weight with the three-hour final test, grades might more closely approximate to actual ability...