Comments | javed_dwam: Tests

javed_dwam

Tests

Dec 14, 2003 22:27

I've been reading, and I've been searching, and I've been writing, and I've come to a conclusion. Standardized tests are stupid. They don't seem to serve any real purpose except to make money for the companies that create them. Now, I live in Canada, and we don't have to write SATs, but some Canadian students want to go to school in the States, ( Read more... )

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About getting people here... javed_dwam December 15 2003, 20:37:00 UTC

>Then you have no doubt dealt with The College Board ( ... )

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About getting people here... javed_dwam December 17 2003, 20:18:11 UTC

>An explanation I read, which I think makes a little sense, is that this >whole standardized testing thing is a holdover from a few decades ago >(can't remember which one, likely the '50's or '60's), when people were >trying to quantify intelligence and got just a bit carried away. I >could pull out my English book and re-read the essays to figure out the >details, but if you'll look at the time I'm posting this, you'll see >that I'm up very late, and in fact the only reason I'm up is because >I've spent the past five or six hours coding the micromouse demo, so >that means I'm too tired to do so. Maybe I'll do that later.

No prob. I've read the history of ETS and the SAT. THe creator of both was one of the people responsible for the Army Alpha, so it's not surprising to see what has become of it really.

How's the mouse programming going?

Colin