Exams Shouldn't Test Memory, Educator Says
More tests are needed in which a person uses what he knows rather than repeats what he knows, E. E. Bayles, professor of education, said in an interview recently.
"Students need to apply the principles rather than repeat a set of words. We need to get things on the use level and not the memory level," Prof. Bayles stressed.
"It's high time we quit memory level testing and memory level teaching. If you can't remember a fact, go to a source. We can't forget a lot if we get it on the use level," he said.
"Students need to know how to arrive at answers when I'm not around." Prof. Bavles said.
He gives essay tests, although he admits they may be impractical to teachers. But he believes fewer tests could be given.
"We have to teach students how to think. The answer only on a test is not enough. Not just a right answer, but a thoughtful answer is needed." Prof. Bavles continued.
"If you don't know the answer, guess. What do you have to work on except guesses?" asked Prof. Bavles.
"The fault lies in the form of the examination," he said. "Words are not the same for everybody or for the same person in different situations."
Prof. Bayles used true and false tests as an example of different word meanings. Because of the way some are written it would be necessary to explain the answer. The test then would no longer be objective, he said.
Former Chancellor Mallot used to say there was too much objective testing on this campus, Prof. Bayles stated.
Essay tests were given before the 1920's, Prof. Bayles said, but they were still repeating what a student knew because he had to have down the right words.
"If essay tests are to be of this kind, I'd rather give objective tests," he said.
In about the twenties, professors disliked objective tests. Now they are accepted. Prof. Bayles said.
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LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — Don't get angry the next time a speed-happy driver zooms by you in a classy-looking sports car. Chances are he's just feeling sexually inadequate.
At least that's the opinion of Dr. Jerome M. Kummer, a psychiatrist at the UCLA Medical Center.
"We have found that a great many sports car drivers go in for these racy vehicles because they express feelings such as sexual inadequacy." Kummer told delegates recently to the sixth annual Western Safety Congress.
Studies Assn. Elects Grier
"The sports car driver is saying I'm not a sissy," Kummer said.
Edward F. Grier, associate professor of English, was recently elected president of the Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Assn. at the fourth annual meeting of the group at MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Ill.
Baur Announces New Curriculum
The new law enforcement curriculum has been approved by the sociology department. E. Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology and human relations, said
The new curriculum is a liberal arts program with a major in sociology. There is an internship during the summer with the Kansas City, Mo., police department, he said.
"In addition to law enforcement, the program includes correctional work and preventive programs, especially with juveniles," Prof. Baur said.
"A great deal of credit for the program goes to William Reed. His interest in the project led to its development. He is preparing for professional work in this field," said Prof. Baur.
Reed, Kansas City, Mo., senior, holds the Eldridge Scholarship given to the most promising junior in the sociology department.
Actors to Test for Amateur Award Play
Tryouts for the cast of "The Long Shadow." prize-winning amateur play, will be at 7 tonight and 4 p.m. tomorrow in room 341 of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will direct the play to be presented May 4-9. Twenty-five plays were considered before the choice of this play. Centron Motion Picture Corp., a Lawrence firm, sponsored the contest for amateur playwrights.
The play was written by Miriam Roffman, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin now living in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Her play was selected Feb. 15 by a committee headed by Prof. Crafton. Other members of the committee were Lewin Goff, director of the University Theatre, Marvin A. Carlson, Wichita graduate student, and Gene Courtney of the Centron Corp.
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Frank S. Rowland, associate professor of chemistry, will present a report at the fourth Conference on Radioactive Isotopes in Agriculture which will be held on April 2-3 at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla.
Prof. Rowland's report, "Gas Counting of Tritium," is one of several to be given at the conference dealing with new methods of harnessing atomic energy for plant and animal research.
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HOW TO BE A THUMPING BIG SUCCESS ON CAMPUS
While up in the attic last week hiding from the tax man, I came across a letter, yellow with age, that dear old Dad had sent me when I was a freshman. I reproduce it below in the hope that it may light your way as it did mine.
"Dear Son, (Dad always called me Son. This was short for Sonnenberg, which used to be my first name. I traded it last year with a man named Max. He threw in two outfielders and a left-handed pitcher . . . But I digress.)
"Dear Son. (Dad wrote)
"I suppose you are finding college very big and bewildering, and maybe a little frightening too. Well, it need not be that way if you will follow a few simple rules.
"First of all, if you have any problems, take them to your teachers. They want to help you. That's what they are there for. Perhaps they seem a little aloof, but that is only because they are so busy. You will find your teachers warm as toast and friendly as pups if you will call on them at an hour when they are not overly busy. Four a.m., for instance."
"Second, learn to budget your time. What with classes, activities, studying, and social life all competing for your time, it is easy to fall into sloppy habits. Set up a rigid schedule and stick to it. Remember, there are only 24 hours a day. Three of these hours must be spent in class. For every hour in class you must, of course, spend two hours studying. So there go six more hours. Then, as we all know, for every hour studying, you must spend two hours sleeping. This accounts for twelve more hours. Then there are meals—three hours each for breakfast and lunch, four hours for dinner. Never forget, Sonnenberg, you must chew each mouthful twelve hundred times. You show me a backward student, and I'll show you a man who bolts his food.
"But college is more than just sleeping, eating, and studying. There are also many interesting activities which you must not miss. You'll want to give at least three hours a day to the campus newspaper, and, of course, another three hours each to the dramatic and music clubs. And let's say a total of eight hours daily to the stamp club, the debating club, and the foreign affairs club. Then, of course, nine or ten hours for fencing and bird-walking, and another ten or twelve for ceramics and three-card monte.
'Finally we come to the most important part of each day—what I call 'The Quiet Time.' This is a period in which you renew yourself—just relax and think great thoughts and smoke Marlboro Cigarettes. Why Marlboro? Because they are the natural complement to the active life. They have better 'makin's'; the filter filters; the flavor is rich and mellow and a treat to the tired, a boon to the spent, a safe harbor to the storm-tossed. That's why.
"Well, Sonnenberg, I guess that's about all. Your kindly old mother sends her love. She has just finished putting up rather a large batch of pickles—in fact, 350,000 jars. I told her that with you away at school, we would not need so many, but kindly old Mother is such a creature of habit that, though I hit her quite hard several times, I could not dissuade her.
Keep'em flying.
"Dad." 1950 Max Shulman
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Here's more advice to freshmen—and upperclassmen too. If non-filter cigarettes are your pleasure, double your pleasure with Philip Morris, made by the makers of Marlboro.