# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S224
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222 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

9. That Boards of Control be directed to recommend subsidies
for university study by instructors when such additional study is
made mandatory by changes in local circumstances (e. g., addition
of courses; requests to assist in library; guidance work; etc.) be-
yond the control of the instructors involved. Such recommenda-
tions are to become effective upon review and approval by the
Board for Higher Education;

10. That the Board for Higher Education be instructed to study
the possibility of applying similar arrangements to the faculties of
the seminaries and to report its findings and recommendations to
the next convention of Synod.

V. The Testing Program

During the process of deceleration no college sophomores were
present on our various campuses on the annual testing date
(March, 1947). Accordingly, the sophomore testing program rec-
ommended by the last Synod could not be conducted during 1947
at our Preparatory Schools. This situation did not obtain at the
Teachers Colleges. In them the testing program has been con-
tinued without interruption.

Your Board is now equipped to carry on a Synod-wide testing
program which will include the American Council on Education
Psychological Tests for College Freshmen and selected tests of the
Co-operative Testing Bureau for College Sophomores. It is also
the policy of your Board to encourage the institutions to give the
incoming high school student a standard intelligence test to deter-
mine his I.Q. The results are filed at the school involved but are
available to the Board.

Tests involving High School and College Freshmen are of
particular value to the institutions enrolling the students involved,
but the Sophomore Testing Program offers basic data for conclu-
sions relevant to the comparative results achieved by the various
institutions as well as valid criteria for comparison with the product
of thousands of public, private, and denominational schools through-
out the United States.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1, That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to direct
such a Testing Program annually;

2. That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to as-
semble, correlate, and file the results of any tests given by
the Colleges and Seminaries;

3. That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to in-
clude in its budget and to refund to the respective school
all costs involved in the administration of the College
Sophomore Testing Program.