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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IO67 about 40 students are being operated in Strength of Materials; at the same time there are sections of five or six selected students in this course and in Kinetics. Professors Draffin and Seely reported recently that "these sections have been in operation for three semesters and while the results have been most encouraging we do not feel that sufficient work has been done to warrant other than general conclusions; it is planned to continue these experimental sections." In the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics so-called discussion-demonstration sections were set up containing about 20 students and running parallel to the regular small-squad laboratory sections. The results of the discussiondemonstration work, when compared with the results of the regular lecture and laboratory sections on the basis of the examination papers of each group, have led Professors Draffin and Seely to conclude that their experiments show "that laboratory instruction can be carried out as effectively in large sections by the discussion-demonstration method as in smallsquad sections only one-half as large." 11 5. In 1942 the General Division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences employed a full-time examining technician. He is engaged in evaluating the work of the students of the General Division and in comparing their work with control groups in the regular curriculum of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is also engaged in the preparation of objective type examinations to be used in the survey courses of the General Division curriculum. Several preliminary reports have been published in educational journals and several mimeographed reports issued to the faculty. 6. Although it lies outside the scope of this study the Commission feels it pertinent to mention that the Executive Dean of the Chicago colleges reported to the Commission that definite progress is being made in physiology, anatomy, and bacteriology in setting up courses for groups of students from the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. It will be said by some that one measure of the quality of teaching is the proportion of students who go on to do graduate work and the quality of their achievement as graduate students. There is some degree of truth in this assertion. The "Ibid. fA.C.E. Report—49]
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