University Daily Kansan
KU Teaching Procedures-
Monday, Dec. 4. 1961 KU Student Injured
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attack to the nature of examinations in the humanities and the social sciences.
"... Observing the examination system in operation," he writes, "I have become more and more persuaded that it is fundamentally unjust to the student, for its assumes that the student is being graded for his work in the course. . . In the social sciences and the humanities, this is simply not so.
"The student's grades reflect his general ability to use language, to organize, to think rapidly, at least as much as they show what he has gained from the course. . . As the system now operates in most colleges, those (students) who are gifted in the art of taking exams—who can write fluently, think quickly, regurgitate systematically—will generally do well in any case."
Colleges, he writes, should substitute research papers and more outside readings for examinations and more seminar classes for the lecture-discussion classes presently being used.
What alternative does Mr. Glazer see to today's widely used lecture-discussion system and its accompanying examinations?
Research papers, he explains, force the student to probe deeply into the subject matter of a course, rather than merely "cram" for the "right" answers to a test.
Outside readings, he writes, expose the student to information of a higher quality than can be provided by the typical lecturer.
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE seminar class over the lecture-discussion class, he continues, are that the instructor lectures less often and therefore has more time to prepare interesting and stimulating lectures, and students work in small groups, where their questions about the course material can be more easily dealt with than in the comparatively large lecture-discussion class.
"More importantly," he concludes, "the students (in seminar classes) have a better chance to discover that true education can only result from their own attempts to organize and clarify a problem, something which is seldom encouraged in lectures to large classes which read textbooks..."
Mr. Glazer's article illustrates a two-primed problem facing KU administrators and faculty members and also raises several questions.
AS KU'S ENROLLMENT—now more than 10,000 and expected to reach 17,000 by 1970 — rapidly increases, classes will tend to grow larger.
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Will this lead to lower quality education by lowering the number of seminar classes that KU can offer and by forcing faculty members to rely increasingly on mass essay and objective examinations?
The answer to this question — today being debated by KU faculty members and administrative officials — will continue to be one of the crucial educational issues of the 1960s.
OR CAN THE CONVENTIONAL lecture-discussion class and its accompanying examination system be utilized to provide quality education in the face of this ever-increasing enrollment?
(Editor's Note: The next article will compare the conventional examination system used at KU to the research paper method for determining grades, and will examine the advantages and disadvantages of both.)
KU Student Injured In 2-Car Accident
Donald Inman, 29. Lawrence junior, remained in critical condition in a Chanute hospital this morning following an auto collision late Saturday that claimed the life of his wife, Mrs. Karen Inman, 25, and four teen-agers.
The couple's 4-year-old daughter, Juie, received a broken leg and facial lacerations in the collision. Hospital authorities said her condition was good.
Details of the accident are sketchy. The 2-car collision occurred on Kansas Highway 39, about eight miles west of Chanute. Inman's parents live in Independence, Kan.
Four teen-agers killed in the other auto were Micky Hufferd, 15, and Fred Likely, 15, both of Iola; Leta Lambert 12, of Chanute, and Rose M. Geisler, 16, of Yates Center.
The only survivor in that car was Albert Malloy, 17, of Iola. He was injured, but not critically.
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AUSTIN, Tex. — (UPI)—"With this asterisk I thee wed," commented The Daily Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas, when freshman Sharon Kennedy complained the new student directory in error put an asterisk by her name. The punctuation mark designated the single coed as married.
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