Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Juniors taking Ec 98 will be the first undergraduates to face an oral test in an Honors field during the coming mid-year examinations. The "experiment," under the direction of the Economics Department, is an effort to gauge the "real thinking process" of a student, according to Werner Baer, instructor in Economics...
Explaining that an oral test provides more flexibility in determining a student's ability than a written hour exam. Baer pointed out that if a "student is stuck in one particular area, you can easily switch to another where he may be more proficient...
Since Ec 98 is a tutorial course, the oral exam will not come as a "suddon" surprise, Baer claimed. He stated that in tutorials, "the students is trained to express himself orally on the subject...
...than the old-fashioned blackboard. New York's Collegiate School for boys tried teaching machines in math, found that 73 students completed in only two weeks an abstract-algebra course that usually requires two months. The Roanoke public schools used teaching machines on 34 eighth-graders-with no oral teaching and no homework-and in less than one semester, all 34 completed a year's work in algebra...
...with autos and planes, invented a radically new, hydraulically controlled, lightweight tractor that was produced by Ford, and at 71 showed off the prototype of a rugged, gearless, turbine-powered "wonder car." Shy but stubborn, Ferguson sued Henry Ford II in 1948 for $341,600,000 for Dreaking the oral tractor deal, settled four years later for $9,250,000. Said Ferguson: "This never would have happened if the old man was still alive...