Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...final fillip to the campaign was the discovery by Dickinson supporters that the University of Iowa had sent to 20,000 high-school pupils throughout the State an intelligence test which included for grammatical correction the following sentence...
German Shepherd fanciers are annoyed when the breed is referred to as "police dogs." "P. D." is a degree conferred on Shepherds only after they have passed a field test of 24 exercises, including food offered by strangers, capture of a person pretending to be a criminal...
...expense of the knowledge gleaned from the course. The whole fabrication of American education is built on the fallacy of the written examination as a safe and sound criterion of ability. Even the most conscientious assistant will admit that the phenomenon of decreasing returns applies to correcting test papers. The section man is mentally alert to judge the first paper with the best of his critical ability; by the twentieth his senses are dulled and there is little correlation with any of the other papers he has marked. The tendency to judge carefully each succeeding bluebook decreases...
...student assimilates during the years before the four year-oral examination. It means inculcating into the undergraduate the realization that he is the only one profiting or losing, that he is pursuing culture rather than sixteen credits. Finally, it does offer him a fairer opportunity and a more comprehensive test to display his qualities to the examining board. It involves the departure of the written examinations and the course as an end instead of a means; it offers education instead of mechanical sheepskins...
...over one third of the graduating class. Most of its problems will arise in awarding the various degrees with distinction. During their Senior year honors candidates have completed their course records, handed in a thesis, taken three written examinations, and appeared before the Board of Examiners for an oral test. Grades have been compiled on the basis of all these various factors, and it is the business of the Division to synthesize the results into some or no degree of distinction...