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Tuesday, July 27, 1971
University Summer Kansan
Curriculum . . .
cash from the Student Senate, and the rest is computer time given by the University.
The survey has four full-time employees this summer, with additional part-time help. There is also one full-time worker at the computer center.
Embery said another problem the survey committee faced was being methodologically sound, with results that are consistently stable.
"We want to give an overall capsulal, sensitive summary of a course without being too brief." Embry said. "There are many conflicting roles for this organization, but one thing we must do is maintain research credibility."
Embry said the factor analysis and factor scoring system employed in the KU survey is fairly unique. More than just the mean scores, the factor method is a new procedure that has now been tested for four semesters, and has proven consistently stable. Embry said he thinks the system is accurate. He said the results are consistent with what was that entertaining teachers would be rated higher by students than teachers who were actually doing a better job.
"Students rate substance teachers better than they do entertainers," Emmett said.
Embry said the committee will initially print about 5,000 of the branches this fall, and that they will be distributed on campus during enrollment this fall.
Embry said the potential for developing a helpful, accurate survey system is very great. He said the administration already uses the results of the survey committee findings in promotion and tenure, and that it also has possibilities for showing more directly the correlation between the quality of education and the amount of money spent on education. That it also could be used for money-making venture to provide funds for the student senate.
When asked about the possibility of a
student rating system being too restrictive or narrowing a force in an educational institution. Embry emphasized that "this is only one method of teacher evaluation," and that in addition, the survey results correlated highly with other teacher rating methods, including faculty visitation. Embry noted that the survey results showed no difference between the survey's evaluation of the quality of teaching and the amount of publishing that a teacher does.
Enbry said that a number of other colleges and universities have curriculum and instruction surveys, but none are as comprehensive or statistically stable as KU's, and still available to students. He said the operational budget at the University of Illinois for their survey program was $79,000 last year, $79,000 higher than KU, but that it would provide a good survey as KU's. Enbry said Kansas State University has a comprehensive survey with a well-researched questionnaire, but the results are not available to students.
Embry said that Harvard also has a survey, but that it is primarily a series of editorial comments about teachers by the time it is published.
Enbry said there is currently no testing service in the country which offers a survey service to students. He said that KU's procedures, some of which are copyrighted, could be sold to smaller schools without the computers and other facilities and technology owned by four universities and teachers and courses. A school would pay KU to process the results of the questionnaire, and could then publish a brochure for its own students.
The future for the curriculum and instruction survey at KU is wide open. Having overcome several sizable obstacles, the survey appears well on its way to becoming an efficient, accurate tool to aid in improving the quality of education at KU.
Greatest Danger in U.S. Is 'Folks With Power'
DETROIT (UPD)—The greatest danger to minorities of the United States is posed by those with power who misuse it, Harold R. Sims, the National Urban Executive director, said Sunday.
At a news conference before the formal opening of the NUL's 61st annual four-day conference, Sims said the answer to the conference theme — Which Way May — may lie in partnerships.
"We should explore the creation of partnerships for efficiencies in development and use . . . within a framework of result-oriented militancy which seeks to make liberty and happiness pursuits for all."
The United States, he said, has
never tried to solve its social problems with the same effort it applied to getting to the moon and "saving corporations."
"I think the greatest danger our minority faces is that their cultures are frasured with the conditions the country has sown, may turn to measures of repression and destruction," he measured of construction and development," he said. "The greatest danger is the folks with power."
He said, "we know that unless we deal with our internal causes, unless we stop our problems at the source, we're not going to the United States of America in the cause of justice and democracy."
In his keynote speech prepared
for evening delivery, Sims told the approximately 5,000 persons attending the conference America is now reaping the two centuries of poverty, inglect, "hate and deception."
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Popular Composer Ted Fio Rito Dies
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (UPI)—
The Fri, Rito, littered big bass-
headers at the composer of many popular tunes,
died Thursday at Baptist
Death was due to an apparent, arm attack. Flo Rito, long a friend of the late George and Los Angeles, had a home here where he lived, with his wife.
Toot *tooft*, "Roll Along, Prairie Moon," "No, NO, Nora" Charlie M. Youh, "Laugh Children My Heart," "King For a Day," "Now That You're Gone!" "Boogie Woogie Three On A Tree," "Knew and, Three On A Tree."
His song hits included "Toot
He was born in Newark, N.J., Dec. 20, 1900, and at an early age showed talent as a painter. He wrote his first song at the age of 14.
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--cards, Hoome said. Each man faces a year in jail—minus three days for each day spent cutting his own hair, supervised by sheriff's officers.
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Three Sentenced for Possession Cut Sentences by Cutting Grass
PRATT (UPI)-Their first supervised attack on marijuana growing wild in the Kansas countryis scheduled late for three. Oklahoma youths in the Pratt County jail.
"We're going to move 'em out this afternoon for the first time," said undersheriff Dwayne Hoeme.
Kenneth McCall, 19, Gary Draper, 20, and William Tullin, 21, all of whom gave Norman, Okl., addresses, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of illegal mining. He had been caught with 100 pounds of Kansas weed in their possession.
Since then the three have spent most of their jail time playing
Hoeme said all three are "getting along all right." The sheriff said all were long-haired
"the parents wanted it cut," he said, and "the judge wanted it cut." But he didn't want what the parents wanted. But we knew that they then buer cut—just a nice trim.
when they came in "but they aren't now."
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