Word: testing
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...criterion that shows most clearly Harvard feels this is the land of the rich and white is the so-called "objective" admissions criterion Harvard uses. We have been constantly told how important the Scholastic Achievement Tests are for minority students. A large part of the admissions office effort for Third World students is based on a search list that includes Third World students who have done well on the PSATs. The SAT is specifically designed to test the "average" students, i.e., the average middle class white student. Clearly, not many Third World students fall within that definition of an average...
Further, it has been shown that the SATs have little or no correlation with the future academic or professional success of minority students. How could SATs possibly test the verbal capabilities of a Third World student, when many of the words used in the test do not exist in his or her environment? Words such as canopy, blender, pantry or perambulator are common for the average white student. But they are not familiar to minority students. A Third World student's depth of assimilation into a white society cannot be the only judge of future performance...
...hospitals, computers are programmed not only to remind the pharmacy department to prepare prescriptions but also to alert nurses to give the proper dosage at the right time. After a physician examines a patient at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, a report, including lab test results, is logged into a data bank. One of the hospital's more than 100 terminals will then handle the patient's history in an intelligible language infelicitously named MUMPS (an acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System...
There have been no proven cases of the Russian Flu at Georgetown. Christina G. McGinniss, head nurse at Georgetown student health services, said yesterday. But doctors have not been able to take throat cultures to test for Russian Flu because they have been too busy helping patients this week, she added...
Irion participated in three pre-season scrimmages but his knee quickly puffed up. Boland administered a dye test on the knee and decided it was necessary for Steve to undergo an operation known as a "lateral mackintosh." Irion had severed the cruciate ligament which holds the knee cap in place and it had literally dissolved. In a delicate three-hour operation, Boland drilled a pair of small holes in Irion's knee which he threaded with a tendon from a leg muscle so as to reconstruct the missing ligament...