Educ for Life-long Learning LO4836

K.C. Burgess Yakemovic (kcby@gpsi.com)
Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:50:59 -0600

Replying to LO4819 --

Rol writes...
>The standardized tests may not be measuring relevant parameters. However,
>there are no recognized tests (widely accepted) that do measure a)
>knowledge, b) thinking, c) synthesizing, d) communicating.

Are the tests not available because they are not _possible_? Or because
those who fund the development of tests do not value these "skills"?

In my experience, what is measured is what is easiest to measure... not
necessarily what needs to be measured.

(I am thinking, for example, of the measurement of errors per line of code
for software quality... a measure which has repeatedly been rejected by
the people who develop software as having nothing to do with quality...
yet which remains because it is something which can be easily computed...
while other evaluations of quality software require someone to actually
_evaluate_ something.)

curious

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   kcby


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