Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on falling Scholastic Aptitude Tests scores [Sept. 5], you suggest that one reason for the decline in these scores might be decreased motivation among test takers as opportunities for getting into college have widened. I suggest another reason for this presumed lack of ambition. This December I will graduate Phi Beta Kappa from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. in psychology; if I'm lucky, I may be able to get a job typing. So much for motivation...
...Educational Testing Service's examinations have become so critical in schooling that a single day's test can effectively vitiate four years of academic achievement. This is true not only for college but for graduate and professional school admissions as well. The examination system may be a convenience to admissions officers who are fundamentally too lazy to devise means to assess candidates on individual merit; and it is doubtless a boon to the test authors, evaluators and proctors who regularly enjoy its moonlighting income. But it has surely demeaned education and caused widespread cynicism among students. Why indeed...
Lance presented himself as a wronged public servant, condemned as guilty by his critics and a sensation-bent press before he could fully set forth his own defense. Invoking the Bible and Abraham Lincoln, he rather grandiosely said that his ordeal was a test of the system by which the U.S. determines whether its high public officials merit their trusted positions. That turnabout, putting his inquisitors on the defensive and setting them to partisan bickering among themselves, was a remarkable achievement for Lance. He had sufficiently muddied up some of the allegations against him so that the joking question wagging...
...those of you who look at Harvard's football schedule and say, "Oh, the first four games are warmups for the REAL season," well, you're dead wrong this time. Today's home opener with UMass will test the talent of a new quarterback, the game-breaking abilities of a prodigal wide receiver, and the patience of Big Ten fans in New England...
Whoever lines up behind center this afternoon will definitely be doing some chuckin', as Harvard will probably test the porous Minuteman pass defense, which surrendered five Leamon Hall touchdown passes in its opening loss to Army...