University Daily Kansan
Friday, January 30, 1976
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Standard tests criticized
By ANITA SHELTON
Staff Writer
Before being admitted to the University of Kansas, each student is required to take an examination. Probably sometime during high school the student also took an IO test.
The value of such standardized tests is now a concern nationally, at KU and in other colleges.
The executive director of the National Education Association (NEA) said recently that standardized tests were "like a lock on the mind, a guard at the factory rate."
TERRY HERNDON, executive director, said that by standardized tests he meant college board tests, graduate record exams, IQ tests or any test that compared performance to predetermined norms and was adapted identically to large numbers of people.
The service decided against that plan after the 1777 federal budget was announced and cancelled the March registration, Mrs. Cordell said.
Marshall Jackson, assistant director of admissions and records, said Wednesday that although standardized test scores were not important for being admitted to KU.
during 1975 would register on March 31, 1976.
- Test scores, Jackson said, usually aren't
  except as a tool in counseling
  students.
JACKSON SAID that at KU, high school records were more important than test scores. The University also has an open admission policy, which means that any Kansas high school graduate can enter the college, he said.
levels. Taylor said.
June 30, the selective service budget was $37.5 million, Elder said.
Dennis Karpowitz, assistant professor of psychology, said IQ tests weren't very beneficial if they were used simply for number classifications.
W. J. Arginger, Jr., vice chancellor for research administration, said yesterday he thought that the information from standardized tests was generally useful. He said they provided objective information about the capabilities of students.
DALE SCANNELL de the School of
MEDICAL AGREEMENT that standardized tests
were useful.
"Standardized tests make it possible for people who haven't been fairly assessed during their previous educational exam, to show their capabilities," Scannell said.
Besides ACT tests, intelligence tests are an area of controversy. Are IQ tests valid or
Eighteen-year-old men no longer have to register for military draft, Mrs. Edith Orcordle, executive secretary for area four of the Army, said they do have to carry drafts to age 25.
Deciding how to use the test results is one of the main concerns, according to Taylor.
"I just don't think there's a lot to be gained by saying 'you're an 89, you'll never be anything.' We know that intelligence is a fixed entity. It changes." Karpowitz said.
DESPITE THE limitations, Carl Krook,
no longer needs to use a hybrid.
he had budgeted for testing this year.
HE SAID TEST scores were looked at on a long-range basis in determining when caught.
Draft registration no longer required
The service requested $28 million for the equipment, but received only $6.8 million from Comcast.
cording to Betty Kessler, local president of NEA
"I think if you are going to test a black child you'd better do it with a test that's been standardized on black children. If you're going to test a white child you'd do it with a test that's been standardized on white children," Karpowitz said.
About a year ago, the selective service discontinued the process of registering all eligible men within a month of their 18th birthday so then all men who would turn 18
One of the limitations may be that the tests aren't standardized by areas, ac-
ANOTHER PROBLEM, he said, is that some groups aren't standardized well.
George Fulgham, Chicago junior, said the evidence was an indication of a person's intelligence.
STANLEY WILLIAMS, St. Louis junior,
said he thought the intelligence tests should
be geared to the education of the students
from different educational levels and
different educations from white students.
"What they truly represent," Pulgham
told. "They are orientational towards
white American society."
Because of the cutback, about 1,300 people will be out of work nationally by Jan. 1, 1977. Elder said. About 1,400 people are now working for the selective service, but that number will be trimmed to 100 by January, 1977.
Knox said that although the test's weren't a complete indication of a child's ability, the scores could be very useful when used with other evaluations.
Intelligence tests aren't used much in Lawrence schools, Bob Taylor, assistant superintendent of schools, said. Individual students by school psychologists though, he said.
Standardized tests aren't widely used either, although there is some testing on all
All selective service offices will be closed by Jan. 1, 1977, except the national headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to Junior F. Ed尔, state director of selective service. Five regional offices with approximately seven persons each will replace the state offices and about 65 persons will work at the national headquarters.
U.S. urged to share food with world
In Kansas, February will be the last month of work for many selective service workers, whose staff size will be cut from 24 to five, Elder said.
By JANET SCHMIDT
Staff Writer
The American people must adopt a new image of themselves as a powerful member of the dependent global society before the problem is solved. Bruce Birch, associate professor of Old Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C., said last
Birch spoke to about 70 people following an afternoon of workshops and a dinner held during the American Conscience and World Conference at the United Ministries Center.
Birch was been chairman of the advisory committee for the United Methodist Bishops' Call for Peace and Self-Development of Peoples for two years and has written several articles on world hunger.
Birch said he was attempting to apply church traditions to today's ethical issues and called upon the American churches to help in changing the national image Americans have of their role in offering aid to other countries.
"We have the tendency to see ourselves always as part of the solution and not as participant."
By offering relief in the form of money and military aid, Birch said, Americans don't get at the root of the problem and are treating only the superficial symptoms.
"This type of aid helps those already in positions of power and doesn't get to the point where they can do anything."
America should decrease military aid and send food to "relieve the pressures of human need that create wars in the first place," he said.
According to Birch, America must reassess its style of life, its national commitments and priorities, and develop a greater sense of global interdependence.
"We are no longer the rescuer, a white knight. We must identify with the hungry and the poor, but not hypocritically, as if we were better, but as we are—the powerful." he said.
America must face the reality of its position of power and wealth and learn to
Birch referred to the Old Testament and traditional biblical perspectives based on a theology of saving and God's intervention in redeeming fallen humanity.
"This long legacy emphasizes the human incapacity to do anything about the human condition."
Birch said he would prefer a theology of blessing where Americans were active and responsible members of humanity, and not adversary agents of God offering deliverance.
During fiscal year 1976, which ends on
Some persons at the dinner said the purpose of the hunger conference was to bring greater understanding to the complexity of the world hunger problem. The format of the dinner dramatized the problem.
Guests were divided into groups representing five continents, according to the map above.
The "Asians" were served chicken broth and rice while the "North Americans" received steak, salad, potato chips, fruit, cake and a soft drink. By the end of the
dinner, the food was being shared and those who had received only broth and rice had the opportunity to enjoy the more filling and varied meal.
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