Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier study Whitla defined the academically average to include students from the 30th to the 70th percentiles of their class--roughly Groups III and IV of the Rank List...
...thesis is that for many students the feeling of averageness serves as the greatest single bar to effective participation in the intellectual life of the College. And the problem will become even more serious, Whitla implies, as the general intellectual level at Harvard and other colleges continues to rise...
...student beset by doubts about his intellectual worth, the role of guidance can be crucial. Because they cannot derive the satisfaction which comes from obtaining the highest grades, academically average students tend to rely heavily on the influence of teachers for stimulation and direction, Whitla says...
...find that contact with professor, tutor, and House Master was an important factor to these academically average men in developing a sense of personal direction," Whitla writes...
...this reason Whitla plays down the importance of the charismatic relation between teacher and student. Instead, he stresses the role of educational programs which seek to involve the student personally in his work...