By Norbert Elliot
A) worry and Trembling? (B) surprise and Awe? Which set of statements top describes the sentiments surrounding the evaluation of writing skill in academic settings? This book-the first ancient examine of its kind-begins with Harvard University's 1874 requirement that first-year scholar candidates publish a brief composition as a part of the admissions strategy; the e-book concludes with the school Board's 2005 requirement for an essay to be submitted as a part of the recent SAT(r): Reasoning try out. meant for academics who needs to arrange scholars to put up their writing for formal review, directors who needs to make severe judgements according to try out ratings, and coverage makers who needs to allocate assets according to overview structures, On a Scale offers a much-needed ancient and conceptual history to questions bobbing up from nationwide awareness to scholar writing skill.
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What is meant by improvement? What by the syllable eu in “eugenics,” whose English equivalent is “good”? There is considerable difference between goodness in the several qualities and in that of the character as a whole. The 34 On a Scale character depends largely on the proportion between qualities, whose balance may be much influenced by education. We must therefore leave morals as far as possible out of the discussion, not entangling ourselves with the almost hopeless difficulties they raise as to whether a character as a whole is good or bad.
The language of the argument—talk of vital forces and of adaptation—indicated the influence of his Wisconsin colleague, the geologist Charles R. Van Hise, author of Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology (1896) and later president of the university. Van Hise, along with many others, had been influenced by genetic interpretations of survival. 78 In America, the case was a complex one whenever vital forces (or trains or written entrance examinations for college) were noted. ” True, the “germ theory” of politics—that all people show development within a Social Darwinist framework—had been emphasized before, but an American character that was unique had emerged in the vast frontier encounter, a battle between the primitive forces of the Indians and the cartographic technology of Lewis and Clark.
The examinations would be administered accurately, fairly, and wisely in printed forms distributed by the board’s secretary, and they would be evaluated fairly by a staff of readers, appointed no later than May. A reader would receive the examination and score it on the following scale of 100: 100 to 90 as Excellent; 90 to 75 as Good; 75 to 60 as Fair; 60 to 50 as Poor, and below 50 as Very Poor. No answer book was to be marked below 60 until it had been reviewed by two readers, and no revision of any examination was to be made after it was marked.