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  • Page 2 WESTERN CAROLINIAN February 27, 1986 Personalized Tests: Coming Soon To A Desk Near You The day soon may come when each student will take his or her own custom test on a computer, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) predicted last week. But even fans of the new customized test technology - and there appear to be a lot of them - say that day won't come until the price of personal computers falls to about $400 to $500 each. ETS, which writes the Scholastic Aptitude Test as well as admissions exams for most graduate and professional schools, unveiled the first step in the process last week. Its new Computer Placement Test (CPTs), which aim to help schools decide which courses students should take, adapt to each student's achievement level, ETS's Bill Ward said at a press conference to show off the new program. With a CPT, a student's answer determines which question the computer will ask next. The computer may begin with a question of medium difficulty. If the student answers it correctly, the computer will ask a harder question. If-the answer is wrong, an easier question will appear on the screen next. "The whole idea is very exciting," says George Mason University Director of Testing Elizabeth Murnane. As part of a nationwide CPT test on 25 campuses, George Mason used it to determine if athletes needed remedial courses. Educators generally like the concept, called "adaptive testing," because the test can be shorter.allow students to work at their own speed and actully measure students' individual capabilities. "It makes a lot of sense to be responsive to the individual," says Harvard Prof. Warner Slack, a longtime critic of the SAT. "But the real question is: what is the quality of the test?" he argues. Apart from the test's fairness, it's very efficient because it doesn't take much time," Ward says. "The students love it," reports Rodney Young, testing director at New Mexico. "If they have to take a test, they like to do it in the computer." Testing directors seem most concerned about the cost of the system. Personal computers, which cost between $1,500 and $2,000 and are needed to administer CPTs, are too expensive for many colleges to afford in the numbers needed for placement testing. "I don't have enough hardware to do it for placement," Young says, adding New Mexico uses the CPTs as a self-monitoring tool for students to check their progress in remedial courses. "We use it as a learning device, as opposed to a test." At San Jose (Ca.) District Community Colleges, "we will be giving about 15,000 tests next year. It's just not practical for us yet," says Dean of Academic Standards John Kangas. Kangas forecasts converting entirely to CPTs once personal computers come down to about $400 to $500 per machine. "I think it will be the wave of the future." . But until then, "people should not expect too much " warns Douglas Porter, another Harvard critic of most standardized tests.,"It still has all the potential dangers of regular testing." A number of schools, including Harvard and Bates College, have in recent years stopped reviewing applicants' standardized test scores. A January, 1985 study by Indiana U. Prof. Brian Powell and University of South Carolina Prof. Lala Carr Steelman concluded standardized tests really don't measure the quality of educational systems. Although he does not agree with the tests' critics ETS's Ward contends 'I don't think this system addresses the question of test fairness. The issues (of quality) will still be raised." Though only a few schools now use CPTs to place students, the ETS and the College Board, which co-sponsors the newsoftware, expect them to catch on. Daytona, Lauderdale Aim to Moderate Spring Break Drinking The capitals of spring break hedonism - Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale -- are trying to change their images. Both communities are sponsoring organized activities aimed at somehow moderating student drinking during the spring break invasions of March and April. "What has gone on before was a Sodom and Gomorrah affair," says Jerry Nolan, spokesman for Daytona's National Collegiate Sports Festival, which is supposed to draw students into activities more constructive than with those with which Sodom, Gomorrah, Daytona and Fort Lauderdale generally are associated. "The festival demonstrates we are getting away from the tarnished image of the past," he says. Daytona and the other vacation spots in Florida don't have much of a choice. This is the first spring break during which the^ state's new 21 -year-old minimum drinking age lawis in effect, and rising insurance costs are forcing communities to find ways to minimize the wild partying that has led to injuries and even deaths in the past. Fort Lauderdale, for one, is sponsoring an "Olympics" featuring volleyball, a tug-of-war and various dance and trivia contests. City officials actively are discouraging excessive drinking, and have banned alcohol consumption on the strip along the beach. Daytona Beach hopes to attract up to 20,000 students to its first National Collegiate Sports Festival. The festival, scheduled for March 8 through April 6, will feature about 20 different sports ranging from rugby to golf. Four national corporations - including Walt Disney - and about 30 Daytona business are supporting the events. Nolan hopes the festival also will encourage more corporations to support intramural programs on campuses. IM sports, he notes, can use some fund-raising help. But no one pretends the activities aren't intended to moderate revelers' drinking. "We hope the level of drinking will be lower than in the past," Daytona Chamber of Commerce representative Betty Wilson says. Daytona also will mount a poster and radio campaign to promote sensible alcohol consumption. "Any planned activity will be advantageous in (controlling) how students party," maintains Beverly Sanders of Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students (BACCHUS), a group that runs "alcohol awareness" programs on campuses around the country. Yet the hard-partying spring break tradition is still a favorite of some local businesses. "These kids are going to come down, partyand raise hell. At least I hope so," says Tommy Fuguay, manager of the Other Place, a popular Daytona Beach club. "It's the only time of year we make money." Fuguay says he is more worried about the new 21-year-old drinking age slowing business than the festival. Most of the national beer companies, as well as long-time spring break visiting corporations like Playboy, plan to return to the area, too, to promote their wares. Coming, too, is Michigan inventor Ronald Rummell to market his new product: a vest allowing its wearer to carry six beverage containers and keep them cold. "It's an alternative to bulky coolers," he explains. Meetings Scheduled for Persons Interested in Taking Intensive Language Two meetings are scheduled next week for all persons interested in enrolling in the Intensive Language Programs next fall. The first will be held on Thu rsday, Marc h 6th at 2:00 pm in room n umber 105, McKee Building, with a second meeting to be held at 3:30 for those with schedule conflicts. The purpose of these meetings will be to explain the mechanics and the methods of the Rassias Method of intensive language instruction, which allows a student to complete two years of foreign language study in one year. Because the method requires more class time from students, options on times and scheduling will be dicussed. The Rassias Method of language instruction was introduced to WCU in 1978-79 by French Professor Roger Bisson. Student success and satisfaction with the program was so great that programs in Spanish and German soon followed, hough the Rassias Method of teaching a foreign language is highly structured and precise, the classes seem relaxed and jovial, making class atmosphere conducive to learning. Students actively participate in four class periods per week with their master teacher, and in five drill sessions per week with an apprentice teacher, who is often a former intensive student. The time spent in class grid in drill sessions, nine hours per week, works with the theory that the quality of work done in class and in drill sessions far surpasses the work students can do alone. Therefore, students sometimes find their out of class work load diminished. But the best thing about the intensive method is the sucess rate of the students. Most emerge after only two semesters of study with a good working knowledge of, as well as the ability to communicate in, their chosen language. Some students have voiced the opinion that the intensive method is the best way to learn to speak the language. Indeed, the ability to readily speaktheir newly-learned target language seems to be the most notable difference between "intensive students" and those who go through the conventional two year method. Because they have been speaking it daily for two semesters, intensive program students lose some of the basic fears associated with actively speaking another language. So if you want more than an academic knowledge of a foreign language, and have a desire to speak French, Spanish or German, you should consider the Intensive Language Program, (course numbers are: Fren., Germ, or Span. 110). If you cannot attend the meeting on March 6th, but would like to know more about the program, contact the Modern Foreign Languages office in 111 McKee, 227-7241. 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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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