Monday, September 28, 1964
THE CAMPUS ECHO
Page Five
Honors Program
By Charles Suttan
North Carolina College, in o-
pening a new year, also opens
its fourth year Honors Program.
Many persons do not yet un
derstand the Honors Program
on our campus because it has
not been given much formal
publication.
The Honors Program is an
experiment which was institut
ed and is directed by Dr. C.
L. Patterson, an associate pro
fessor of English here at North
Carolina College. The program
is entitled “An Experiment to
Determine the Effects of Speci
alized Instructional Techniques
on the Performance of Superior
Students.”
The program here at NCC
has the basic assumption that
the performance of North Caro
lina College graduates as mea
sured by standarized tests, per
sonal impressions, and job re
quirements leaves room for
considerable improvement.
Another assumption under
lying the formation of the now
three-year-old program is that
the performance of even su
perior North Carolina College
graduates is marred not only
by a failure to know facis but
also by a lack of understand
ing of those facts and by an
inability to apply them satis
factorily to, or manipulate
them effectively in specific sit
uations.
Three years ago the program
opened here on our campus with
four major goals outlined. First,
a pressing need was felt to raise
the level of performance of su
perior students at North Caro
lina College. S^-ondly, the ef
fect of an integmted system of
instruction stresJRg visual aids,
programed instruci^ion, problem
-serving techniques, and met
hods of thinking on the perfor
mance of superior students was
to be determined. Also, an in
dication of the effect of an in
tegrated system of instruction
stressing understanding, relat
ing, evaluating, and using sub
ject matter on the performance
of superior students was de
sired, along with a wish to
determine the extent to which
the techniques developed and
adopted in the experiment
could be incorporated into the
techniques of other teachers.
The program is made up of
25 members from each class.
The organization is that 25 top-
ranking freshmen be organized
into a class under the supervis
ion of one teacher and remain
in that class for four school
years. This is a special class in
addition to the student’s usual
load. The special course is
scheduled for five meetings per
week. Three of these meetings
are for all participating stu
dents and devoted to formal
instruction in such areas as met
hods of study, use of sources of
information, techniques of pro-
blem-solving, working with
symbols, and methods of think
ing.
A major feature is the tutor
ial system. Under a “buddy
system,” each freshman is pair
ed with a sophomore who has
some of the courses the fresh
man is taking, and each sopho
more is similarly paired with a
junior to help in solving the
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Viewed As Fourth Year Begins
problems posed by the courses.
This arrangement serves both
to aid the new student master
the course and keep the mater
ial fresh for the old student.
This has proved very helpful
in such areas as mathematics,
chemistry, and social sciences.
The program further features
the provision of practical work
for seniors, juniors, and sopho
mores who plan to teach. These
students participate in the plan
ning of lessons both for their
own and the other Honors Pro
gram classes. They take part
in constructing, administering,
scoring, and analyzing tests.
They also practice interpreting
test results and evaluating in
dividual test items, thus put
ting into practice the theories
they are learning in their edu
cation classes.
A very successful feature of
the program is the “spill-over
effect. Materials and techni
ques that prove beneficial in
the honors classes are made a-
vailable to other classes. Thus,
a textbook that was tested for
a year in the honors classes has
now been adopted for all fresh
men. Programs for computer
computation of grades and for
the handling of record-keeping
chores by automatic data pro
cessing equipment have been
developed by the Honors Pro
gram and made available to
other classes. Programmed in
struction, pioneered on a large
scale by the Honors Program
classes, has now been extended
to advanced grammar classes
and to the entire remedial Eng
lish program.
Although the Honors Pro
gram is designed primarily to
meet the needs of our students,
it satisfies, in all essential as
pects, the requirements of the
Inter-University Council on the
Superior Student for a full
honors program. Liaison with
the Council and coordination
with other schools who have
developed Honors Programs are
being employed to insure that
as our program develops, it will
offer our students experiences
and expose them to standards
that are not merely local, but
national in scope.
The faculty and members of
the previous honors groups
welcome to the program those
25 freshmen students who be
came part of the program this
year.
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