On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:04:54PM -0500, Dru wrote: > > > 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.
One point of note that springs to mind is that Oracle do an online exam for their SQL exam as part of their DBA track, so that's a possibility. I work with a bunch of folks who are (or at least, I *hope* are) Oracle certified; I'll have a chat with them about how it generally works tomorrow. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)
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