Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most valuable learning experiences for both teachers and students come from courses that can withstand the test of student interest. Requirements can force students to take courses that they will not like and may not learn from. Courses that naturally attract students interest and attention will provide a far more meaningful experience...
That fact has already been confirmed at Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, where a test lot of 3,000 sets (price: $9 each) quickly sold out, and at Manhattan's F.A.O. Schwarz, where Othello is the No. 1 seller in the game department. Othello fans at 50 colleges are already signing up for the Eastern Regional Othello Tournament scheduled for February, and addicts at Caltech and M.I.T. will face off against each other in a match this week...
However, it is possible that a ruling against special minority admissions would make it more difficult to admit minority applicants, who might be highly qualified to be physicians although their test scores and grade point averages might not be as high as those of others, Furshpan said...
...following areas: mathematics, physics, biology, non-western culture, political and moral philosophy and modern social analysis, and a full course or two related half courses in western culture. Students would be allowed to place out of these courses by scoring above a certain level on a standardized test. Students would still have to take expository writing, but they would have to write a paper during freshman week to enable instructors to place them in the proper expository writing course. Exceptional students could place out. Students who wrote that first essy poorly would have to take a remedial course...
Courses legislated into existence without standing the test of the "marketplace" ae not likely to please either the students or the staff. A course evolved from the special interstst and achievements of its designer is far more likely to succeed than one designed by committee. The effect on their enthusiasm and spirit of working through courses the students find unusually dull or distasteful is distinctly negative and damaging to other parts of their careers...