Off: Right To Decide et. al.

[M Holmes]

Eric Siegerman writes:

> Chemistry finals, on the other hand, went the other way entirely.
> They weren't multiple-guess -- but they were open-book.  The
> questions were designed to test understanding, not simple
> knowledge of facts. and so the teachers felt (and told us so
> quite clearly) that having your textbook available to look facts
> up in wouldn't help you much if you didn't understand the
> material.

Now *that's* how to run an exam. I just hope the true teachers can win
out against the tide of drive that's being imposed on education.

FoFP