On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ceri Davies wrote:
Ah- understood and agreed. We're just getting started on all of that.
Do you have any thoughts on objectives for a curriculum?
Nothing lucid at the moment; I just saw the announcement a couple of hours ago so I want to catch up on the list archives, chat to some colleagues, etc..
A question though: is the general feeling that this should be lab-based or Q&A based? Lab based is going to be expensive and as a result will potentially restrict the audience (not to mention number of test sites), while a Q&A based exam is probably going to need to run on Windows if we want the likes of VUE/Prometric to run it.
We are in the really, really, really early research stages of this and are looking at the implementation details for both options. The final result may actually end up being unique.
For now, these are important to us:
- the resulting methodology must be practical and test real-world skills - Open Source solutions are preferred over proprietary solutions
- we are not keen on the prices test centers charge and don't wish to
contribute to money-making paper-producing mills
- we are aware of the importance of psychometrics, credibility, and
ensuring the identity of the testing candidate
This is why I encourage thinking out of the box and the contribution of ideas, even if they sound a bit wild in their first expression.
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