Credit Where Credit is Due

IN THE area of general education, Antioch College attempts to recognize demonstrated skill and knowledge through a system of five comprehensive examinations called achievement examinations. The purpose of these examinations is to evaluate the outcomes of a broad program of fourteen required courses, organized, like the examinations, in five areas. The exceptional student may earn enough credit by examination to equal nine of the required courses, thus permitting him to cut as much as a year and one-half from his academic program or to plan an enriched program of more advanced courses and special activities. The mediocre student, as part of the requirement for his degree, must pass all the required courses as well as all the examinations. To discuss the examining system of an educational institution constructively one must understand the context in which it operates, the educational practice and theory of the whole institution. Antioch is a small, coeducational, liberal-arts college. Its eleven hundred students are well above average in academic aptitude. It is unusual in many ways. The co-operative plan under which all students alternate between study on the campus and jobs in more than twenty states broadens the college experience, emphasizes the practical and the modern, and vitalizes classroom and laboratory. It means also that, compared to the average college student, the Antiochian spends only twenty weeks in the classroom each year and that his college career often lasts five, and sometimes six, years. Most Freshmen postpone work experience and complete two twenty-week academic years during their first calendar year of college. Academically there is much freedom both in methods of instruction and in methods of learning. Students may work autonomously, that is, they may design individual courses at the advanced level to fit their own needs. Examination and marking procedures vary greatly from instructor to instructor. The faculty has recently voted to move in the direction of abolishing marks and credits when adequate means can be worked out. Community government offers students, faculty, and administration an opportunity to share in running many parts of the college program. Student members are elected to the Administrative Council, which is directly responsible to the board of trustees and the college faculty in determining college policies. Faculty members are elected to the Community Council, which legislates in areas outside the curriculum and administration, such

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• Evidence of the Effectiveness of a Program for Giving College Credits By Examination

  Open Access•Arthur A Dole•Educational and Psychological…•1951

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