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To: LindyBill who wrote (45940)5/20/2004 9:53:53 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 794162
 
Oh, I don't think testing is bad. Testing is quite appropriate in certain situations and not in others. The problem with many testing professionals is that they think testing is appropriate in all situations. Perhaps that's your position as well.

The good thing, in my experience, with testing professionals is that most have a very keen awareness of the limits of any given test. They just tend to think another or better test is the right answer.

As for the dichotomy between higher education as testing directed or self esteem directed, you leave out a rather large amount. Learning to appreciate, let's say the ways in which Shakespeare's plays or Tolstoy's novels address one's conception of being human; or the ways, for that matter, Mahler's symphonies do so as well. Those don't lend themselves in testing in a conventional sense. Nor does struggling with serious philosophical arguments. I could go on.

It's one of the reasons a great many academics prefer students write essays.
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