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Page Two
THE VOICE
October
The Importance of the N. T- E.
Editor's Note: Dr. Pace's talk
is of such vital concern to all
F. S. C. students that we include
all the pertinent points.
Member osf the Class of 1970
this information which I shall at
tempt to share with you for a few
moments has to do with the sig
nificance of the National Teacher
Examinations. In 1959, I was on
leave from this college, and I ap
plied for a job, as a regular teach
ing job with the city of Detroit.
When I made my application, I
was told to report to the psycho
logical testing center in that city
and upon reporting, I went
through an exhausting series of
test that seemed to never end.
I want to suggest to you that
testing is nothing new. Many large
■school systems have been using
tests to certify teachers, allowing
them to teach in public schools
over the years. It’s only been
though, since 1954, that the use of
tests accompanying your degree,
has been used widely and you
need to be aware of the signifi
cance of these tests. More and
more we are going to be given
standardized tests. In short, I’m
saying that degrees are not going
to count for very much unless you
succeed on these standardized
tests. This will be the significance
of the NTE.
It means that your performance
on these tests will determine
whether or not you will be certi
fied to teach, not withstanding the
acquisition of a degree. And so it
is of crucial importance at the out
National Library Contest Poetry
set that you understand the fact
that before you plea or before
you’re placed, you will be re
quired to take the NTE, and you
ought to begin now to plan, to put
yourself out in terms of exposure
to the library and in exposure to
key notions in all deals which you
must grapple with on these tests.
Now, unfortunately, we had a
few students each year and we
still do have a few teachers each
year who make scores of less than
400. This seems to me to indicate
something very important. In view
of the fact that a prospective
teacher next year must make a
score of 475 on the common exam
ination on the NTE in order to
teach in the State of North Caro
lina, and that in the year 1968, a
prospective teacher must make a
score of 500 in order to be certi
fied to teach in the State of North
Carolina, I think you ought (o
know that a score of 500 is not a
high score.
The NTE consists of two exam
inations but only one is being cur
rently uesd in North Carolina —
this does not apply universally,
however, — to certify teachers.
That’s the common examination,
but when you take the NTE, you
will take a test in your toachin"
area, in your major. Now the
scores there range from 300 to
990. Most of our students are
making about 500 in their teaching
fields, so the average score is
about 500, but you can make as
high as 900. 500 Is th e usual range
on the common examinations
which are so important to us be
cause this is how the state depart
ment determines whether or not lo
certify you.
The scores range from about
386.7 to 774; nevertheless, you
have to make 386 to get on the
sheet and some of our students
don’t even get on the sheet. I re
member one fellow took it last
year and made 342 or something
of the sort, so he didn’t even get
on the sheet. By the same token
we had another young man, a
math major, who made a score of
SKETCH PAD
719 which is in the 10th percentile
and pretty good.
You need to be aware that you
will be given three discreet tests
in general education when you
take the common examination.
One of these is written English;
another is social science, literature
and fine arts, and the third is
mathematics and science. Now, If
you don’t get the basic fundamen
tals in your general education
courses, it’s going to show up, no
two ways about it. You will also
be given a test on professional edu
cation in the common examination
when you take it. There will be
three discreet tests in this part of
tfie test; one in psychological foun
dations, one in sociological foun
dations and a third in teaching
principles and practices.
Out of these six discreet tests,
you will be given an additive score
of such -and-such. I’d like to see
the students here at FSC-all stu
dents who graduate — make above
600. I’m serious about this too.
I had rather by choice live out in
the woods, you know; you don’t
know, I’m telling you — nine miles
from town — but voluntarily
about three years ago, I started
meeting with upperclassmen once
a week, not because I thought I
was smart enough to teach them
all the things that they should
have gotten in a year. Nobody but
somebody stupid would think that,
but what I did try to do with these
students was to give them some
self-confidence, just to raise the
level of learning and to let them
practice. We gave them all kinds
of tests; In short, I tried to evi
dence some concern for these stu
dents.
DR. MALVIN E. MOORE, JR.
MISS LENA MEANS
PAD pays tribute to members of the college family
who render excellent service to FSC^s overall welfare during
the period preceding each edition of THE VOICE. This edition
salutes Dr. Malvin E. Moore Jr., Dean of the College, and Miss
Lena Means, Registrar for their combined endeavors that led
to the smooth operation of opening activities.
I’m contemplating the idea now
of taking you once a week for the
next two years, two and a half
years, and see whether or not we
can find out if the concern of fac
ulty members can raise the level
of you learners in giving you some
practice with tests will not 'be sig
nificance. You don’t know who Dr.
Allison Davis is yet, but you
will, no doubt. He is a Negro
who holds a professorship
at the University of Chicago. He
spoke to a group of us in Florida
last year. I forget the observation
that he made with regards to test
ing. He said many of the upper
and middle class white families
take their kids to experts and have
them practice on tests before they
take the college entrance examina
tion board’s test, in order to give
them impressionable et cetera, et
cetera. Now his observation is that
if these parents whose children
have been exposed to all kind of
enriched experiences do this, how
much more we need to do this.
We need to help students to be
come test wise as we put it, by
letting them practice. Practice
does not make perfect but it helps.
So this is what we would tell
you to do; Alleson Davis made the
observation that at the end of the
sophomore year at the University
of Chicago, student has twenty
tests, twenty standardized tests.
Ninty-nine percent of those stu
dents would take any standardized
test and make a high score on it,
not necessarily because Ihey were
intelligent — many of them who
are intelligent make pretty high
scores on these tests — primarily
because they know what to look
for. They become test wise. They
look at this item and say, “What
is this guy getting at?” don’t you
see. Rather than guessing, rather
than putting down the idea they
would accept as being correct —
and it might be correct — but the
fellow who writes and checks the
test says you must select the item
that comes pretty close to what
they say is the most nearly correct
answer.
NATIONAL LIBRARY CONTEST
WINNERS
The Great Society
By BARBARA MYRICK
I am but a stranger in this land
of doubt — In this land where the
one-eyed monster seeks Annihila
tion of my belief in God and Self;
I wander in this country of mad
ness that demands an end to re
sistance.
I feel a stranger here; yet I feel
an alliance With the suffering
masses of naked souls In this cor
rupted paradise.
For my comrades are lost in this
morastic jungle Of dead ideas,
and I, too, am lost. I, too, carry
membership to the Cult of the lost
Souls, and I feel fear.
I cry out to the night to hear
emptiness; I cry and it is a hollow
sound — an echo to my Tortured
mind, an echo.
Work, Rest, Ride
By ELISHA CARMACHAEL
I am not one to scorn the man
Who claims life’s best is work,
Nor am I one to relax all day
And all my duties shirk.
But I say this, my favorite son,
Taking love by your side to con
quer worldly fortunes. You must
work and rest and ride.
Work with the strongest of them
all. Work till you are out of
breath, Rest then son, for too
much toil may lead to death; And
ride my boy, among the ones
whose lives are full of sin. But
ride up high above them, else you
too may be forced in.
Ride with kings of might and
wealth. Ride with men of shame;
Ride with courage in your belt,
Ride wth honor’s name.
Ride and ladgh and sing and
cry ,Ride and emotion’s hide; Ride
with the stars and the clouds in
the sky, Ride and sing with pride.
Work better than anyone. Rest
when you know you should; Ride
not only among the best, my son.
But among the bad and the good.
Work, rest and ride my son But
let charity abide — He spoke to
me these words but once. Then
turned his head and died.
So what have I said to you?
Well, I have said that the signi
ficance of the NTE which you’re
going to take in 1969 or 1970, lies
in the fact that it will determine
whether or not you will be certi
fied to teach in the State of North
Carolina; and more importantly, in
many other states. I predict fin
ally, that by 1970 when you take
the common examinations of the
NTE, the cutoff score is going to
be between 559 and 600. Thank
you.
Teaching As A Career
We must get off to a good start,
spend our time wisely and be fully
prepared at the end of four years.
These were Dr. Frierson’s “neces
sities” as she talked to the fresh
men about teaching as a profes
sion, its opportunities in elemen
tary and secondary schools, prepa
ration for the 1
sonal charactei
the profession.
Experiencing No
Experience
By LAURA GILMORE
A young, innocent mind Grew
up protected, safe from und^rsir-
able grime But the veil lifted as
the changing times Put the rare,
unspoiled treasure in a bind. Dents
yes, but no holes yet Had gotten
into the masterpiece; Any pecul
iar happening wouldn’t let The
mind’s cheerful attitude cease.
When ugliness squeezed in
Through a pin’s hole. It spread to
the size of a bowl. Taking with it a
larger role To learn and much
later to discern.
man can make is to remind him
self together, and unless he does
canteen, sometimes the curriculum
he will find that he has not pre
pared in the very best way for
four years, for this job to which
he has eagerly looked forward.”
Dr. Frierson said that the profes
sion of teaching is its own justi
fication for its inclusion among
the professions. Its services are
critically important to society and
procedures used in the profession
utilize intellectual techniques. The
profession guarantees the quality
of its members and those members
are organized for professional acti
vities.
She said that opportunities in
, both elementary and secondary
^ education were numerous. Such
■ positions as classroom teachers,
- coordinators of curricula, super
visors, special teachers, counsel-
- ors, librarians and auxilliary per-
- sonnel await the properly trained
- graduate.
Dr. Frierson added that prepara-
" tion may be acquired right here
at FSC. The incoming student
- must face up to this challenge by
»
getting off on the right foot at the
very start of his stay here. There
are now higher standards in the
NTE in major concentrations,
which make it .necessary that a
good start is made.
She concluded by mentioning
certain personal characteristics vi
tal to the teaching profession. Its
members must have good mental
health, vigorous physical health,
imagination and good humor.
The Voice
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