Seniors Take Tests

IN COOPERATION with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the College gave the entire senior class a series of tests on February 28 and 29, the results of which will help to establish a composite standard of factual knowledge for seniors in the various fields of major study. The tests were a revised version of those which the non-professional graduate schools at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia have been giving to their entering classes for the past three years. Under the Carnegie Foundation's new program, a number of undergraduate colleges, among them Dartmouth, have been invited to give the tests to their senior classes in order to establish more trustworthy norms against which to measure the individual student.

The tests were of the objective, short answer type, covering the fields of mathematics, physical science, biological science, social studies, literature, fine arts, and verbal aptitude, and including a more extensive examination in the senior's major field. Each Dartmouth senior will receive an intellectual inventory from the Foundation in the form of a graph, indicating the norm established by the entire tested group in all the colleges and showing comparatively the record of the individual senior and the group record of all seniors majoring in the same field.