# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S169
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 169

the past six years your Board has frequently encour-
plleges to administer these tests. The majority of the
é established the program; however, any values coming
tation have been confined to the individual institution.
s.to receive greater values, on a system-wide basis,
testing program, it will be necessary to expand the bat-
and to make a central, comparative analysis of the
will be necessary, further, to make such results avail-
‘schools and to undertake whatever action is indicated
clusions drawn.
‘Board is now in a position to undertake such modern
es, Since it has Mr. Robert Hopmann, who is trained
accounting and in statistical analysis, on its staff.
nnection, consideration should be given to possible
ich mental ability and academic aptitude tests, the col-
tests, personal adjustment tests, and vocational guid-
ght have for our work if they were given on a system-
Any potential value of the graduate record examinations
niors in the teachers’ colleges and, later, in the senior col-
t’also be explored.
n expanded testing program could be expected to assist
evaluation of the curricular efficiency of the present
d would also give opportunity for an objective evalua-
tudents choosing to enter the full-time service of the
well as comparative data of the level of attainment of
its with that of the students of other colleges within or
synodical system, your Board
ends that the Board for Higher Education be author-

satiduct an expanded testing program to the extent that it

“a program inherent values for Synod’s system of
anid teacher training; and the Board
ends, further, that the Board be authorized to enter
er the related costs in its regular budget.

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Change Name of Board

€ question of changing the name of the Board for
Wtation had been raised before the 1950 convention, and
vention referred the matter to this Board for con-
nd “for recommendation to the 1953 convention, your
‘to report that it has examined the recommendation
as ‘discussed the subject with interested parties, and
Several items of correspondence in relation to it.
to the Board that its field of interest is sufficiently
dude: the general area ordinarily classified as higher
d that the present title is more suitable than others