# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1010
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

gonvention and the requests which are before

_n a ° al anence that no static stage may be expected m are
operation of this si i i i ;

builds size, involving, as it does almost 300

To meet the short-
cation ort-range problem, the Board for Higher Edu

Recommends that Synod direc
' t the Fisc: i
an amount of $500,000 each year in the were “bade wre lude
pounded in a college and semi met Said
and the Board mney Puilding fund;
hat pecommends, further, that disbursements fro
lated ds be authorized by the Board of Dj
in higher education approved by tho

Recommends, finally,

m these accumy-
) ctors, for proj
this convention; and the Board

that a commission with representation

c ACTION
ommittee 1 recommended, and Synod resolved:

Was mh Resolution 12
a REAS, The constantly increasin
which must be maintained on the camp

obligation that must be faced resolutely; and
W. i
diate inane This problem has aspects that should receive imme-
on as well as long-range planning; therefore be it

Resolved, That the followi P
Higher Education be referred t Co nesetutions of the Board for

Finances): “That Synod direct

er education approved by this Convention.” And be it

solved, To accept the recommendation of the Board for
Education “That a commission with representation from the
of Directors, from Synod generally, and from the Board for
‘er Education be directed to study the capital investment

ee ms related to the maintenance and expansion of Synod’s
educational institutions and to make its recommendations on the
establishment of a satisfactory and desirable long-range policy

to the next convention.”
° Testing Program ;

The 1947 convention authorized the Board for Higher Educa-
tion to “include in its budget and to refund to the respective school
all costs involved in the administration of the College Sophomore
Testing Program.”

' During the past six years your Board has frequently encour-
aged the colleges to administer these tests. The majority of the
schools have established the program; however, any values coming
from the operation have been confined to the individual institution.

If Synod is to receive greater values, on a system-wide basis,
from any testing program, it will be necessary to expand the bat-
tery of tests and to make a central, comparative analysis of the
results. It will be necessary, further, to make such results avail-
able to all schools and to undertake whatever action is indicated
by any conclusions drawn. ,

Your Board is now in a position to undertake such modern
testing services, since it has Mr. Robert Hopmann, who is trained
in student accounting and in statistical analysis, on its staff.

In this connection, consideration should be given to possible
values which mental ability and academic aptitude tests, the col-
lege freshman tests, personal adjustment tests, and vocational guid-
ance tests might have for our work if they were given on a system-
wide basis. Any potential value of the graduate record examinations
for the seniors in the teachers’ colleges and, later, in the senior col-
lege might also be explored.

Since an expanded testing program could be expected to assist
Synod in its evaluation of the curricular efficiency of the present
program and would also give opportunity for an objective evalua-
tion of the students choosing to enter the full-time service of the
Church as well as comparative data of the level of attainment of