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THE RIDGERUNNER
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1965
NEW FRESHMAN
SEC. - TREAS.
At a called meeting of the
freshman class on Wednesday,
November 10th Miss Barbara
Hudson was elected to fill the
unexpired term of Charlotte
Arledge.
Barbara is eighteen years old,
a graduate of Elkin High School
in Elkin, North Carolina. A
government major, she plans to
attend law school at the comple
tion of her studies here.
COMPUTER GRADING BASKETBALL
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ALMA MATER
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mater he could find and threw
out all the standard practices
found in each. The finished pro
duct is original tastefully done.
We can be proud of Dr. Edwin’s
fruitful efforts.
At the same assembly the in
troduction of the Asheville-Bilt-
more cheerleaders for the 1965-
66 season was made as well as
the introduction of A-B’s basket
ball team captain, Bill White.
Bill, after presenting his team
mates, assured those present of
an all out effort of the team in
the upcoming campaign, and ask
ed the same of the student body
in return. We know he was right
on his promise and we hope he
gets the right answer on his re
quest of the students.
We call your attention to the
roster of A-B’s team members in
this issue of The Ridgerunner.
Asheville-Biltmore
ALMA MATER
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Raise thy banners high.
We shall ever sing thy praises
College in the sky.
Asheville - Biltmore
Let us bring honor unto thee.
Greater still shall rise the chorus
Through eternity.
Firm upon the rugged hilltop.
May she ever stand.
Sending forth her sons and
daughters
Known throughout the land.
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mated grading of “essay” ques
tions is one aim of a new study
at the University of Connecticut
with support from the College
Entrance Examination Board of
New York City.
Director of the ^9,680 pilot
study is Dr. Ellis B. Page, pro
fessor and director of the Uni
versity of Connecticut Bureau of
Educational Research. Dr. Page
whose bureau each year machine
scores millions of objective tests
spent the spring and summer on
this project.
“The time seems ripe,” he says
“for the study of computer grad
ing of essay exams.” In recent
years, Dr. Page explains, rapid
strides have been made in com
puter hardware technology, in
the programming of language-
data processing and in linguistic
analysis.
Observing that more than ever
is known about the simulation of
human judgments, Dr. Page be
lieves many of the “building
blocks” which his study requires
are in place or nearly so.
He notes that educators and
other learning specialists have
long been troubled by so-called
“objective” grading.
“A single judgment of an essay
by a single human judge is slow,
extremely unreliable and of un
certain status. When sufficient
training is used, and a sufficient
number of judgments establish a
decent reliability, essay grading
becomes prohibitively expen
sive,” Dr. Page points out.
Thus enters the multiple
choice exams which permits more
questions, is highly reliable and
seems to support other evidence
available to the teacher. Despite
its virtues, educators feel the
multiple choice exams has its
drawback, he remarks.
This type question does not
require the student to give his
teacher the “big picture” by re
sponse or require him to express
himself in correct English.
Dr. Page cites two other ob
jections to the multiple choice
tests:
“One virtue of any test is the
practice which the testing session
gives the student. And it seems
clear that the practice experi
ences of the student in taking an
essay test are not precisely the
saine as in taking a multiple
choice test.
“Another virtue of any test is
the type of study which its antic
ipation motivates in the student
before the test is administered.
Many persons believe that stu
dents study differently for ‘re-
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call’ items than for “recognition’
items,” Dr. Page remarks.
Although he isn’t convinced
that these objections are entire
ly valid, Dr. Page does feel they
lend support to the desirability
of finding some fast, reliable, in
expensive and “objective” system
of essay grading. Dr. Page con
siders EngHsh a “troubled field”
for essay grading.
To do the ideal job in essay
grading, the high school English
teacher would have to spend huge
amounts of time out of class, he
said.
“Equalizing the load of the
English teacher with his col
leagues in other subjects is an
unsolved problem. ‘Lay readers’
are tried on an experimental
basis in a number of schools, but
these are an additional expense,
are relatively untrained, and pose
some large problems of coordina
tion and aptness of judgment,”
Dr. Page pointed out.
He wistfully hopes that some
way might be found to utilize
more broadly the talents of the
few, so that individual judgment
and correction of essays might be
disseminated in the same way
as lectures may be filmed or
exercises may be printed in
texts.
Dec. 9, 10, 11 — Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Western Car
olina Holiday Tournament, Sky-
land, N. C.
Dec. 15 —' Wednesday, Char
lotte College, Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 6 —' Thursday, Milligan
College, Home.
Jan. 8 — Saturday, Pembroke
College, Home.
Jan. 11 — Tuesday, King Col
lege, Home.
Jan. 15 — Saturday, Mary
ville College, Maryville, Tennes
see.
Jan. 22 — Saturday, Augusta
College, Home.
Jan. 28 — Friday, Pembroke
College, Pembroke, N. C.
Jan. 29 — Saturday, Wilming
ton College, Wilmington, N. C.
Jan. 31 — Monday, Frederick
College, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Feb. 1 — Tuesday, St. An
drews College, Laurinburg, N. C.
Feb. 9 — Wednesday, Char
lotte College, Home.
Feb. 16 — Wednesday, Au
gusta College, Augusta, Georgia.
Feb. 19 — Saturday, Milligan
College, Johnson City, Tenn.
Feb. 25 — Friday, Maryville
College, Home.
March 1 — Tuesday, Ogle
thorpe College, Atlanta, Georgia.
BULLDOGS GET FED...
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37-31 at half time. The second
half revealed a new A-B team
as the Bulldogs took the lead at
11:57. The lead slowly increased
to five (57-52) when the Sea-
hawks went from their sliding
zone into a man-to-man defense.
However, the Bulldogs began to
work fast breaks and their out
side shots to trounce the Sea-
hawks 80-67. The team was a
different team than they had
been the night before. To say
they have improved would be
an understatement. The boys
were nothing short of a great,
well-oiled, hard-working, ma
chine. No one man could be
called a standout as this was
clearly a team victory. How
ever, Garvin with 26 points and
Green with 22 points seemed to
feel victory as they pounded the
Wilmington defense for 48
points. Perhaps the biggest en
tertainment to the crowd was to
see an ear-to-ear grin by Green
every time he scored a point.
White and Baker, being held to
10 and 14 points respectively.
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were keyed on by Baxton and
Neary who were hoping to pre
vent a repeat of the previous
night’s performance. Jim Zentz
also put in a good performance
in his third college game grab
bing many rebounds. Zentz is
still new to A-B and is unacus-
tomed to playing in the “Kennel
Club” but still managed to ob
tain ten (10) points. He showed
great potential and will definite
ly help the team this year.
Earlier, I mentioned that the
Bulldogs were a well-oiled ma
chine. The oil referred to, means
the shouts, cheers, and full sup
port of our student body. The
Galley 3—A. B. College—Smith
Bulldogs show great potential.
However, the student suport will
be THE deciding factor. I would
urge every student to support
every game away and at home.
The next home game will be
Friday, Dec. 3 against powerful
Tusculum College which beat the
Bulldogs earlier this year. If
possible every student should al
so try to attend the December 6
game at King College, Bristol,
Tennessee. It is only a two-hour
drive and would mean a lot to
our team as they battle the Tor
nadoes.
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Beat The Clock !
Chicago, 111.—(I. P.)—Mun
delein College, in an attempt to
defeat the tyranny of the clock,
is experimenting with a new
weekly schedule as well as with
a new calendar this year. Vice
President Norbert Hruby ex
plained this innovation, part of
the “New Mundelein” plan, as
follows:
“As we move from the con
ventional semester course to the
new 11-week term course, we
hope to do much more than
merely ‘rearrange’ the time pack
age within which the course will
be offered. Not only will the
new term course be one of the
only three or at the most four
courses that the student is carry
ing, but is should have a distinc
tively new character.
“The three—hour course, which
meets three times a week for 50
minutes over a 16-week period,
is equivalent to a term course
which meets 4 times a week for
50 minutes over an 11-week
period. The former course has
48’ hours’ of classroom contact;
the latter has 44 — this repre
sents ‘equivalence.’
“Once the notion of equival
ence is established, we can move
ahead to break the rigid time
mold as we redesign the course
within the framework of the
term. We have set up six 90-
minute time slots, each of which
extends across the five class days
of the week.
A course is assigned to a time
slot, not to days of the week.
Both instructor and student are
assured that no other class will
meet during the 450 minutes thus
provided each week.
“No class may run for longer
than 85 minutes, thus allowing
five minutes for a student to get
to another class. Although great
flexibility in the use of time
within these slots is intended, it
is the responsibility of the de
partment and the instructor to
set out how time is to be used
during the term before the term
begins — and so inform the
academic dean.
“The term course is intended
to be more comprehensive, more
intensive, and more flexible than
the old semester course.”
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