Word: feedback
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Committee promises a sequel to this report, but this seems uncertain. Had the preliminary report come out a year ago, the Committee might have had enough feedback by now to help guide the new president. As it is, he will probably consult his own commissions and appoint some new successor to the overworked and flagging Committee on Governance...
...this way Special Concentrations will serve as a valuable indicator of the needs of students and the extent to which departments can meet these needs. Information and feedback of this sort is essential before major changes can be enacted or refused; it is impossible to design a grand plan in a vacuum. The Special Concentrations program is an experiment that will supply an objective picture of the current curriculum's flaws, undistorted by the rhetoric of the system's critics or defenders...
...interest in the dynamics of group behavior, he also appointed four observers, with instructions to record their comments after each meeting: how things went, why things went wrong, etc. The conferees insisted that they be allowed to participate in these postmortems. "What happened was that they found the feedback more exciting than the actual event -the conference," says Leland Bradford, former executive director of N.T.L...
...Maine retreat, opened in 1947, the N.T.L. began applying the feedback process to what has become an entirely new educational approach: the T group. Uninstructed and agendaless, the group begins to coalesce in a highly charged emotional atmosphere. At first, group members are reserved, but eventually they remove their social masks. Says Bradford: "People come as lonely people -we're all lonely people-and find they can finally share with somebody. One statement I've heard 300 or 400 times from T-group members is, 'You know, I know you people better than people...
Charles J. Christenson, chairman of the POC, defended the proposed grading reform. He said a grading system should be used only to decide who gets a degree, and not for the purposes of feedback and motivation...