Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a certain vindictiveness about the Slack-Porter argument," says Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and the longest standing member of Harvard's admissions committee. Whitla, who has enjoyed periodic research support from ETS, made a statement in 1962 that Slack and Porter now take pleasure in quoting: "If this thesis [that SAT scores can be increased by an intensive tutoring program] were to be proved true, its proof would challenge the validity and essential purposes for which the test was constructed." Today, Whitla says, Harvard is continuing its standard practice...
Slack and Porter endorse what Whitla describes as a growing reliance on Achievement Tests at Harvard and other schools. But they warn that too much emphasis on these exams--which test knowledge of individual academic subjects on terms dictated by ETS and the College Board if teachers felt compelled to prepare students specifically for the achievements. The answer for Slack and Porter is one that admissions offices and ETS would consider a step backwards: abandon the SAT, use other standardized exams to a limited extent, and place even more stock in high school grades and recommendations...
...spring 1980, Dean Rosovsky commissioned a report on the recruitment of minority and women Faculty members. A group headed by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Institutional Research and Evaluation, worked throughout the summer and produced a report in fall 1980 that provided statistics on hiring of minorities and women in the Faculty and made several recommendations for increasing their numbers. Those recommendations have been or are being implemented...
...unanimous decision to suspend judgement on Nagy's plan came after Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, told the committee that the number of students taking make-up exams has increased throughout the Ivy League, "so we're not in bad shape...
...Inflation is already too great. Honors grades are given out with abandon," Mansfield said, adding he "tried to urge" the Faculty council two years ago to encourage professors to limit the number of high grades they award. This is the second year Whitla has distributed the reports...