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...isn’t math prodigies with buzzers facing off over trig identities, as the movies would have you think. The tournament consisted mainly of long tests??the General Test was 100 minutes long—that were taken individually and in groups...
...grading process could vary from being a one-on-one conversation between a grader and a student to a group session involving multiple students. The reduction seeks to increase accountability and alleviate “enormous” variability among graders, said Wei, who explained that because the tests?? format is free response, the grade and quality of feedback largely depends on the individual grader. While some graders are very comprehensive and spend a long time with students, others are less committed, said Wei. Wei said he also hoped the reduction in test graders would lead to greater...
This week, President Barack Obama called for the 19 largest banks in the country to undergo “stress tests?? to determine whether they are adequately capitalized to withstand a significant economic downturn. Critics have claimed that the government’s worst-case economic condition forecasts are too weak, making the tests inadequate. Still, the tests should provide valuable information on the health of our banking system, and the administration was wise to order them. Should the results eventually show that any major bank is undercapitalized, the government should not hesitate in taking it into receivership...
...stratification of ideologies. But what hoisted itself above all of these intersecting faiths—above fascism, communism, capitalism, democracy—was the ambivalent shroud of dust and ash in which mankind could glimpse a vision of its own destruction. To watch footage of the atomic tests??the grainy, bird’s-eye view of a seemingly endless geyser of particulate matter—is to understand an iota of a vengeful, earthbound god. To watch that same footage to the sounds of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say?...
...said another possibility may be to “develop broader-based, curriculum-based tests?? to serve as better predictors of college success...