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"To some extent, the educational situation turned around before the rhetoric began," Tacha said.
She said educators began to move toward more rigorous standards before studies such as the Nation at Risk report, completed last summer, concluded that students were not as academically prepared as they were 20 years ago.
"Educators have been bitterly aware of those statistics for a long time." Tacha said.
She said KU scores were above the national average because KU had traditionally attracted good students. KU honor programs also brought in highly qualified students.
But J. Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that because of the steady increase in ACS scores from 1978 until 1982, the drop in 1983 worried
ALTHOUGH A TREND cannot be established in only one semester, he said, the University monitors ACT scores because they determine
the preparation of future students and the subsequent need for remedial courses.
KU' freshmen have consistently achieved higher ACT scores in the natural sciences than in the other three areas tested - social studies, mathematics and computer science - have been the lowest of the four since 1967.
In 1983, the average score in natural sciences among KU freshmen was 23.6; in social studies, 21.4; in math, 20.9; and in English, 20.3. In 1987, the average score in natural sciences among KU freshmen was 22.4; in math, 20.7; and in English, 22.4.
JOHN TOLLEFSON, dean of the School of Business, said he had not noticed changes in sign language.
"My feeling is that increased attention to academic standards started a number of years
In the 1950s, Tollefson said, the dropout rate was high among high school students who decided to go to work instead of continuing on in college. In 2014, it was smaller, percentage went on to college than did
"That changed dramatically as an expression of social policy in the 1960s and 1970s." Tolleson
He said the public became more concerned with providing education for everyone and less concerned about maintaining academic standards.
The movement then was to let students make their own decisions about what kind of education they wanted, he said, so colleges began loosening requirements.
EDUCATORS ARE now aware that in this effort to educate everyone, Tollefon said, students gained too much independence and had too many choices to make in the expanded curriculums colleges offered. Those broad courses students from building strong academic skills.
In response, he said, schools have been "raising standards somewhat, and by whatever means, trying to build those kinds of academic skills."
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previous semesters, and the department of occupational therapy fell from its No. 9 spot. It now has the lowest scores of the 10 programs ranked.
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Joane Wyrick, chairman of the department of occupational therapy, said the department's lower scores could be attributed to the fact that most occupational therapy students were women, who have traditionally scored lower on *T* tests.
In high school, women often are not encouraged to take math and science classes. Wyrick said, which contributes to their low scores in those areas of the test.
"It has nothing to do with what you do in college," she said. Women traditionally score better than men, she added.
The School of Engineering has not only exceeded all other schools on composite scores, it has also excelled in three of the four subject areas — math, social sciences and natural sciences. Journalism students have held the top spot in English for all four semesters.
JOHN TOLLEFSON, dean of the School of Business, said business students received high scores because they had become more serious about their studies since the 1970s, and academic success was important.
"At a lot of universities," he said, "business is a default option."
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, attributed his school's high acuacies to his teaching.
THE TYPICAL freshman or sophomore won't attempt to complete the math and science course.
Mossberg said that the School of Pharmacy had also experienced a trend with more older students returning to college
He estimated that 40 percent of all pharmacy students were returning students.
J. Michael Young, an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and he expected students in the College to score about one-third the importance of the large number of students in the College.
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