Word: scholasticism
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For all anybody yet knows, Drumbeats and Song may have in The Pajama Game a superb show or a shuddering wreck of a production. In any case, the organization behind the production, Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, is no wreck at all. It came into being in 1949, for the purpose...
SUCCESSFUL universities have always remained mercifully vague about the purposes of education; national programs to improve education have perpetually sought to define the aims of education. For this reason, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which was a boon to overworked admissions officers also threatened to create a relatively narrow definition of...
One barrier against such tyranny, at Harvard and elsewhere, has been the relative inaccuracy with which present tests predict college performance. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation, in an effort to find tests of greater "usefulness," is developing criteria for admission that promise to predict college grades with unprecedented accuracy by...
They simply recognized that the Knapp-Greenbaum index did not distinguish between the effects of the college and the quality of the students who came to the college; and so, confident that the qualities of a college could be separated from the quality of the student body, an NMSC worthy...
And Merit is very fond of test scores. Despite the vast quantities of evaluation that schools supply about National Merit Scholarship candidates, the scores seem to be crucial. The Center for the Study of Higher Education administered some personality tests to students after National Merit made its scholarship awards, and...