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Ividual teaching methods and not be
|compared to other professors.
“I don’t think it’s possible to mea
sure a Rod O’Connor in an introduc-
itory chemistry course against a John
IMcDermott in an advanced hurnani-
[ties class, ” he said.
■ Many variables should be consid
ered during the preparation of stu-
Edent questionnaires, he said. These
■nclude type of course, student level,
class size, classroom location, facili
ties, course objectives, whether it’s a
required or an elective course, diffi
culty of subject matter and time of
lay of the course.
Johnson said that in the Depart
ment of Educational Curriculum
and Instruction two questionnaires
are used: The first one, given mid-
|semester, is a formative evaluation.
The advantage of this questionnaire
jis that it is given in time for student
feedback to lead to changes and im-
jprovements before the end of the se-
Imester.
“If you ask me, the formative eval
uation is 10 times more important
Ithan the summative because there’s
time to turn the course around,”
lohnson said.
The summative evaluation is
given at the end of the semester, and
a mandatory evaluation of the
course and the professor’s teaching.
Concerning the issue of pub
lishing the evaluations, Johnson said
professors often seem threatened by
Ihe results being released. He sug
gests moving away from negative
phrasing and putting professors in a
^negative role.
Johnson also said that to be worth-
fwhile, the published results must
contain information that students
vant to use. The wording must be
brefully chosen, he added.
Davenport said some professors
have argued that the professor alone
should be told of his evaluation so he
jean work on improvement and not
■face condemnation or competition.
He also said the legality of pub
lishing the evaluations has not been
confirmed, but will be a consider
ation of the subcommittee.
Royall the Student Government
once attempted publishing the re
sults, but the project was disastrous.
The main reason it didn’t work, he
hiid, was that it wasn’t feasible for
Student Government to handle such
darge project alone.
Free Fridays give
schools a boost
Photo by KIMBERLY TRANT
Spring Training
These children show their Aggie Spirit at an already qwn official Aggie garb, ei
early age. Mark Hix (left) and Jared Trant though their Aggie yells are still garbled.
Isolation
Life still possible without electricity, phones
Associated Press
COLDSPRING — While many
Texas schoolchildren spend Fridays
daydreaming in class about their
weekend plans, students in this small
East Texas community go on field
trips and take part in other extracur
ricular activities.
Children in San Jacinto County’s
Coldspring-Oakhurst school district
have enjoyed a four-day school week
since 1983. Texas Education Agency
spokesman Tom Patton said the dis
trict’s four-day week is unique
among Texas schools.
School officials began giving stu
dents Fridays off after they realized
children were missing more and
more class time because of extracur
ricular activities.
Now, the district’s 1,600 students
start school a few weeks early in Au
gust and take Fridays off from
March through May. District offi
cials try to restrict most extracurricu
lar activities to Fridays.
“We just felt it was a logical thing
to do,” said school district Superin
tendent Fred Arneson. “You don’t
have to make drastic limitations on
the outside activities which kids en
joy to keep them in Class.”
Some teachers have said the four-
day week creates a holiday atmo
sphere. Others, however,,think it has
made students more serious about
their schoolwork.
Most students seem to favor the
program.
“It used to make me mad to be
robbed of school time when I partici
pated in extracurricular things,” said
Tracey Trantham, 14. “Now I have
even more time for studying.”
One student, however, had some
complaints about the shorter school
week.
“I hate having a shorter summer,”
said Jennifer furner, 13. “It cuts
down on the time my family can
travel and go camping.”
The shortened school week saves
the district about $2,900 a year be
cause it doesn’t have to hire substi
tutes for teachers who are on field
trips during regular school days, Ar
neson said. Teachers are not paid
overtime for extracurricular events.
Arneson liked the experiment so
much he testified to a legislative
committee, urging state lawmakers
to consider a four-day school week
as an alternative to cutting back ex
tracurricular activities. But the idea
was never adopted.
The state’s Education Reform Act
passed last year limits students to 10
absences a year for extracurricular
activities.
Associated Press
KERMIT — Rancher John Haley
stopped phoning home and quit pay
ing electric bills 16 years ago when
he moved his family to the remote,
10,880-acre cattle spread where his
parents lived as newlyweds in 1924.
Dressed in faded blue jeans, west
ern work shirt, boots and a cowboy
hat, Haley said last week that his de
cision to do without electricity and
telephone service was “a matter of
principle.”
“I had an estimate done when we
first moved here on running an elec
tric line and phone line to my
home,” he said. “I thought they
could have given me a better deal
than that. I thought, I could burn a
lot of kerosene for that amount of
money.”
He did just that.
Instead of paying $30,000 to
$40,000 to have phone lines in
stalled, he drives 20 miles to Kermit
and makes his business calls in a of
fice that he rents for $325 a month.
And rather than pay $700 for an
electrical line and then monthly elec
tricity bills, Haley burns $1,000 of
butane and kerosene a year.
“I had very little reason to use a
phone until I became involved in
some investments,” Haley said as he
walked to his 30-year-old gas refrig
erator to get a beer.
“My office phone bill runs about
$200 to $400 a month,” he noted. “I
still have phone bills, but I have no
need for one on my ranch. If some
one wants me bad enough, they can
send after me.”
Haley, 58, spends his mornings
scanning The Wall Street Journal
for the metal market prices.
“I have my breakfast,” he said.
“Cigarettes and coffee .each morn
ing. And I look at what’s happening
in the metals — gold and silver mar
ket.
“You have to start out with what
you have. If you’re lucky, you can in
crease your capital. I’ve made some
good investments, and I’ve made
some bad ones.”
He said the ranch, which is about
65 miles west of Odessa in sparsely
populated Loving County near New
should earn everything
Mexico border, has been one of his
better investments.
At least, said Haley, “I don’t get
interrupted in the middle of a good
steak by the ringing of a phone.”
Evenings at the Haley ranch are
often spent reading.
Haley, who once made a living
trading in the stock market, is partic
ularly fond of the works of author
Joseph Conrad.
“I like his way with words and his
philosophy,” he said. “Conrad be
lieved a man
he got.”
Haley and his Stefanie, 47, believe
their five children are reaping the
advantages of ranch life.
“It’s a good place to rear kids be
cause ranch life breeds indepen
dence and creativity,” Mrs. Haley
said.
“Our 16-year-old son is now being
entertained by the television set in
Tucson, Ariz., where he goes to a
E rivate high school,” she “But when
e comes home for the summer . . .
he reads.”
Criminal charges
filed in paddling
Associated Press
GARLAND — A Garland couple
has filed criminal assault charges
against a school principal who alleg
edly paddled their 11-year-old son.
The parents said they had signed
official school district documents
saying they did not want corporal
punishment given to their son.
They say that Herman Salter,
principal of Northlake Elementary
School, paddled their son March 29
for disrupting class.
The couple told the Daily News
they want Salter reprimanded by the
Garland Independent School Dis
trict board and brought to trial.
Dr. Eli Douglas, superintendent
of Garland schools, verified that the
parents had asked to address the
board about the incident at trustees’
April 18 meeting.
The boy was involved in a similar
incident before in which he was
paddled “until he bled” in front of
other students, and the boy needed
counseling as a result, his father
said.
T he family filed a lawsuit which is
still pending against the school dis
trict involved in the earlier paddling,
she said.
' “My husband had promised him
he would never be paddled like that
again, but he was,” she said. “We’re
going through with all this because
we want to let our son see that my -
husband’s word can be trusted.”
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