Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Skinner says that in many ways his teaching machines are like individual tutors, and indeed the machines seem more accurate than many of its rivals in Cambridge. He points out that there is a continual interchange between the program and the student, and that since the student is always active, manipulating the machine, he avoids the stupor of textbook-reading or lecture-drowze. Skinner points out that, "like a good tutor, the machine insists that a given point be thoroughly understood, either frame by frame or set, before the student moves on." And perhaps most importantly, the machine, like...
Sophomore year is the rallying point of most of the protests and solutions, but since many students continue working with the same tutor on into the junior and senior years, the issue extends even further. A good group tutorial usually leads to good individual tutorials and to important contacts within the department for the student who has done well with an outstanding tutor...
Many of the not-so-good tutorials in the sophomore year seem to occur at the outposts of the Harvard-Radcliffe camps. All-girl tutorials with a woman tutor, especially in a "masculine" field such as Government, often lack the gusto necessary to valuable discussion. On the other hand, many all-male group tutorials degenerate into beer and cheer sessions, where the tutors is "one of the boys" and becomes less responsible. There are some defenders of House privacy who argue that a breezy informality is a necessary prerequisite of learning, but the weight of evidence would indicate that...
Many departments now try to fit people with the same interests and abilities into tutorial groups. Each House is trying to get its concentrators into tutorials with a House-affiliated tutor. Neither of these goals should be sacrificed to "mixed tutorial." But "mixed tutorial" should be added as a third important objective by both large and small departments and by the Houses. With these objectives in mind, the problem of non-resident tutor offices becomes clearer. Perhaps these tutors will be given space at Radcliffe, perhaps in a vacant room left in a House after deconversion. It doesn't really...
...three men agreed that the prime problem concerns sophomore tutorial. On the junior and senior level, more attention is given to fitting tutee and tutor on the basis of specialized interest than on the basis of House or College affiliation...