Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test previously unmeasured intangibles on which Progressives set great store, he invented ingenious new tests, using observation of pupils as well as pencil and paper quizzes. Results: Progressive pupils scored higher than those in traditional schools in knowledge of current affairs and people, honesty, cooperation, leadership, ability in creative, writing and art, critical thinking, breadth of interests. Traditional school pupils knew more about rules of health, Progressive pupils were huskier and healthier...
...Most elaborate test is one being conducted by P. E. A.'s Commission on the Relation of School and College. This is the famed "so-schools experiment," comparing achievements of boys and girls from Progressive schools, admitted to college without examination, with those of matched graduates of conventional schools. Last week Commission Chairman Wilford M. Aikin, of Ohio State, reported that by the second year of this five-year trial, Progressive students were doing a little better in marks than conventional ones, were using their college opportunities more wisely...
Last week Dr. Theodore Rosenthal of New York City's Department of Health revealed that of 26,646 premarital blood tests taken in the city since the law became effective last July, only 1.34% or 358 cases showed positive results. This figure tallies very closely with the percentage of syphilis cases found in New Jersey and Connecticut tests. The figure is low, explained the Social Hygiene Association, because those who know they have the disease do not take the test, but wait until they are cured before being married. The percentage of positive cases represents persons...
...years ago the scientific curiosity of Dr. Erland Nelson, a psychology professor at Newberry College (Newberry, S.C.), was aroused by frequent reports in the press that this one or that one had called U.S. university youth radical. Equipped with an "opinionaire" (a test with questions on 60 controversial issues), Professor Nelson went to the horse's mouth, examined students on 18 campuses-four State universities, 14 denominational colleges-mostly in the Middle West. Sample issues raised: capitalism, communism, divorce, free trade, race toleration. Students who favored maintaining the status quo were rated "conservative," those who favored moderate changes were...
Underlining the right answers to questions composes the major portion of the written grilling. Students in biological sciences should know of what does the placenta not permit free passage from mother to foetus. The sample test shows "blood corpuscles" underlined as the correct answer...