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^ Kggpp^ If lEHfal HPyfr. I til ?mm\! 111 Id | II-! yflm J iJvJffll Educati will me skill pr< By BABB MATHEWS Gamecock Staff Writer Students in the College Education will soon be testec proficiency in reading, writing mathematics under a prog designed to upgrade these t I skills. Lorin Anderson, technical visor of the committee prepa the exams, said the prog should be completed by Decern "The program's initial com was tnat students leuving College of Education did not 1 some basic skills necessary teaching," he said. "A COMMITTEE was forme investigate the feasibility constructing exams," Andei said, "and we were able to gat f some items to test several jectives in the areas of read I I Mr MB f t I, ygf JMIlIm -? ' V^ *\ V/ 3[u IUrl EraBBHBBflHHnBBHnHBBHBH ion test asure oficiency writing and math." Anderson said the tests w i of given to 13 and 17-year-olds 1 for establish standards of c< and petency. The reading and m ,ram tests were then given to 150 juni >asic and seniors in the College Education. ad- "We found that 20 to 25 per c ring of our students scored as well a: ram iess well than the average 17-yc t>er. old," he said. "Somewhere 1 cern ween seven and 10 per cent sco the as well as or less well than thp lave year-olds. These pilot te f?r seemed to indicate the need fo testing program." d to of A PROFICIENCY test in writi >s0n will be pilot-tested this semestc her "The tests will probably be used 0b_ an entrance exam rather than jngt exit exam," Anderson said. '?, IThe cieling of Russel House create an in teresting pattern 01 shadows above these tw< I persons who hav? stopped for a rest. "The tests will protect bo profession and the student ere said. "Students who do nol t? the exam will be placed >m- remedial diagnostic pro ath geared to the objectives t 'ors tests." of According to Dean Leo ,ent Lessinger of the Colleg 5 or Education, the tests are a res ?ar- t() a "c'*ma^e concern' educational quality. red 13- "There has been a gr sts concern among many p r a around the country aboul quality of education," Less said. "Our program is a res to that concern. The Colle ,n8 Education is interested in lo r- at the quality of its graduate; as I think good things will come < an Grad repo outn By BESS McCRA Gamecock Staff V 1 Women attendin for the second tin f Statistical Reporti > Black said 3,513 * USC the past fall. 804 men between J do not include lav Several USC woi they had not encou reason for the inci Sheri Brown rec was teaching at a L that basically it w subject to any sex Lucy Hopkins, th a u/nman moif n "winuu maj uc a discriminated aga The United Stat stated recently the has increased sha; administrator of t studies show the n per cent from 4,600 During the sami decreased 2.6 per c awarded, the prop< per cent in 1970-711 Margaret Bell, a Education, said sh tending graduate s more women than "Hie change in fact that more worn factors in the upsv 3( \ I Js " M W&& ;e of ponsc l^nHHB " fOr ^ag owing I _'7r- --- E;-- ^1: eople L the linger ; jg ponse ge of oking i, and Gary Sllverma >f it." luate sc rt womi B umoer i Y /riter g graduate school at USC outi te in three years, Debbie Bla ng Office said. women and 3,381 men attend USC awarded graduate degre uly 1,1976 and June 30, 1977, si ' school graduates. nen said because of changes ntered any sexual discriminat :ease in female graduate stu< eived her Bachelor of Arts de ?exington high school before co as a man's world, but she has ual discrimination. e only female graduate student n asset to someone in her field inst in science and engineerir es Department of Health, Ed it the number of women earn -ply over the past few years. he National Center for Edut umber of women receiving dc in 1970-71 to about 7,300 in 1974i period, the number of men ent from 27,500 to 26,800. In ter >rtion of women receiving degr o 21 per cent in 1974-75. ssistant dean for academic afl e was noi surprised by the lr chool. "Graduate classes in e men," she said. society's attitude towards woi en are heads of households nov /ing of female graduate stud* 'HH n spent a lazy I>abor Day hools sn nen numbered men in 1976 ck, statistician in the ed graduate scnooi at es to 1,094 women and le said. These figures in society's attitudes, ion which may be one ients. gree in education and ming to USC. She said > neither seen or been in physics, said being I because men may be >glucation, and Welfare ing doctorate degrees Marie D. Eldridge, nation Statistics, said >ctorates increased 59 75. receiving doctorates ms of total doctorates ees increased from 14 fairs in the College of icrease in women atHllPation licnolltr haim WHVMVIVII UUUUI1J 11C1 V t king women and the v than ever before are snts." playing his guitar ?