What about an excrutiatingly large question pool designed for adaptive testing? Integration of free-response/essay questions? A live-distro that requires actual skill to accomplish a real task that can be recorded and graded or automatically analyzed? The key I would think would be to make the testing as multi-faceted as possible with emphasis on skill and knowledge.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:42:09 +0200, David TAILLANDIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the BSD certification group is somewhat open, how do you plan to > create tests without people knowing the answers ? > > The tests then have to be prepared by trusted people, using a private > mailing list or website. > > Not only the answers have to remain secret. The questions have too. > Otherwise anyone can list the questions before taking the test, learn > the good answers and then go to pass the test without any real > knowledge. Just memory. > > In this case, the BSD certification group is not something 'open' anymore. > > _______________________________________________ > BSDCert mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert > -- James W. Thompson, II (New Orleans, LA) _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
