Word: teuber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andreas Teuber '64, head tutor of Social Studies, said yesterday at a meeting of approximately 35 of the 50 junior concentrators that the committee decided students should "get the generals over with now," but will give students the option of taking the test any three days between now and June...
Social Studies students yesterday confronted Teuber, and Michael Walzer, chairman of the Social Studies Department, with questions concerning the validity of grades on the general exams...
...Teuber cited an overworked staff, seniors who tended not to take the exam seriously, and the hope of improving senior theses by having students develop a general social studies approach before writing, as reasons for the change...
...Teuber said the exam would not test general knowledge but rather the "social studies approach to understanding the world." "It would force the faculty to articulate what it has to offer," he said...
...Teuber favors this idea of group effort and said he would consider the possibility of exams written by several students working together