Word: crawfords
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...manicurist, felt his ardor for her cool, Messrs. Gosden & Correll have marched their story bit-by-bit right into a breach-of-promise courtroom. There it was necessary to have Mme Queen's testimony. So high-voiced Amos spoke for her (as he does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford and Lightnin'). Testified Mme Queen: ''The second time Andy was in there, he said to me, he said: 'Sweetheart, this is one of the best manicures I ever had.' . . . One night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa...
Professor A. B. Crawford of the personnel department at Yale, in reference to the discovery of the surprisingly small correlation between college-board grades and Freshman marks, said: "Should further research substantiate these findings, they would necessarily cast considerable doubt upon the validity and reliability of the present type of examinations...
Those undergraduates who once underwent the strain of "college boards" will undoubtedly be interested to hear that these examinations have been scrutinized by the Department of Personnel Study and grave doubts cast as to their efficacy. Albert B. Crawford, Director of the Department, comments on them in his recent report to the President, and points out that there is a remarkably low degree of correlation between college board examination grades and the records in Freshman year. He emphasizes the fact that predicted scores, or "bogeys", based on various school and entrance records, are really a more accurate method of determining...
...should stand for a while, but should be supplemented with other tests, and the net results taken as a basis for prediction. The scholastic aptitude test, while it is not without definite shortcomings, suggests a field of research which may prove fruitful in determining the student's abilities. Dr. Crawford is at present analyzing data obtained from one hundred and thirty such aptitude tests, and we await the result with interest...
...which educators are becoming more an more interested. Dr. C. C. Little, one-time dean of Harvard, in his recent book "The Awakening College," criticizes the inadequacy of the college board examinations to determine the emotional and temperamental set-up of the prospective college student. Now Dr. Crawford finds them inaccurate as a basis for prediction. It is to be hoped that such critical researches will continue and that out of them more accurate and efficient methods of selecting college students will evolve. The Yale Daily News...