Friday, Jan. 10, 1958
University Daily Kansan
Page 3
Prudy Schneck, Mission sophomore, studies for finals
What a boring book
Oh well, 10 more days to study
Learn To Study-The Correct Way
Now is the time for sweating out finals, but in just 25 days a new semester will begin, allnight bridge parties will resume and Kansas Union "kaffeeklatsches" won't be tense anymore.
Also resuming their usual schedules will be the voluntary courses at the reading and study skills laboratory. Here in 50-minute sessions you may learn better ways of studying.
In 18 meetings scheduled either two or three times a week, practically at your convenience, you have
the opportunity to learn effective ways of making notes, reviewing, taking tests, improving grades and preparing term projects.
An important part of the course is making out your own budget for study time. The instructors try to help you learn to accept the importance of having a definite time to study.
"There is no easy way to get good grades," says Henry P. Smith, professor of education and an educational psychologist. He has directed the laboratory for the last 10 years.
is not a "patent medicine" for insuring high grades with little effort. He says you must want to improve your study habits enough to be willing to work hard at it if you are going to achieve any results from the course.
Prof. Smith insists that this course
Students may register for the course during enrollment on the liberal arts floor or in 102 Bailey. During the school year 102 Bailey is open every day from 2 to 5 p.m. for those wishing to enroll.
Entrance Tests Lack Efficiency, Study Shows
A study made at KU and published in Kansas Studies in Education indicated that entrance examinations and placement tests are not accurate enough to be used for limiting enrollment.
This is one of the findings of "A Study of Exceptional Students Who Entered the University of Kansas in the Fall of 1954" by Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the school of education, and Dale M. Yocum, graduate assistant.
Many students who ranked in the lower 10 per cent of some tests made better grades on others than those who scored in the top 10 per cent. Ten students who were in the bottom 10 per cent of at least one set of test scores were in the top 10 per cent of one to four comparisons of grade-point averages.
The reasons for these differences, according to Dean Anderson and Mr. Yocum, are inaccuracies in measurement and variation in motivation. They believe that a policy of selection might be not only difficult, but undesirable.
The implication from this, according to Dean Anderson, is that there is little general inferiority or superiority in ability. Almost every student can find some area of study in which he can make satisfactory progress.
The study compares the grades for the first four semesters of 772 freshmen who entered KU in the fall of 1954 and placed either in the top 10 per cent or the bottom 10 per cent on one of four commonly used placement examinations.
Two students scored high in all tests, six scored low on all tests and 135 were in the bottom 10 per cent on only one set of scores. Many were in the bottom group of some tests and the top group of others.
A better method, they say, would be to point out to certain bottom 10 per cent groups the possibilities of their becoming dropouts due to poor grades, to emphasize the importance of strong motivation and to leave the decision to the individual.
The third University Daily Kansan photo contest which was to close at 1 p.m. today will not be judged. Entries will be held until Feb.28 and will be judged as part of the fourth contest.
Photo Contest Entries Held Over
Classes are held every week except during the last few weeks of each semester. They are scheduled during most hours of the day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Persons who want to enter the fourth contest may pick up entry blanks and contest rules at 111 Flint Hall. The contest will end at 1 p.m. Feb.28.
About 500 students take the course every year. It is taught by graduate students with several years' experience in high school or grade school teaching.
Engineers Will Tour Polyethylene Plant
Thirty-five members of the KU chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers will leave Fowler Shops at 6:30 tonight for a tour of the IMCO Corp, polyethylene manufacturers, of Kansas City, Mo.
Paul Hausman, associate professor of the engineering manufacturing process, who will accompany the group, said the main attractions of the plant are that it is one of the largest polyethylene plants in the Midwest, and is completely automated.
"Hardware disease" hits cattle when they eat nails or bits of wire found around barnyards or mixed with feed as a result of careless handling of building materials.
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A crowd of 12-14,000 persons is expected for the KU-Colorado University basketball game Monday night in Allen Field House, Earl Falkenstien athletic department business manager, said Thursday.
The Jayhawkers and Buffaloes played before a near full house here in the last game of the 1956-57 season.
Rossetti Painting Here
The picture of an Italian lady who figured in Dante's "Divine Comedy" was found to be structurally weak after its arrival from England and has been treated at the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, Mo.
A painting titled "La Pia de' Tolomei" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English pre-Raphaelite artist, has been hung in the main gallery of the Museum of Art.
A display outlining the work done on the picture by the restorer is included in the display.
The painting is one of the artist's last works and is one of the most important 19th century English paintings in this area.