Re: Fronteers certification - opinions?

Hi guys,

Does anyone else feel that a memory based 'quiz' is unrealistic? I'd be surprised if there are any front end web professionals that don't look something up or copy + paste on a daily basis.

If we want to train people for real life than either we have the quiz 'open book' or make it project based. We need to test understanding not memory.

-- 
Lewis Nyman


On Tuesday, 10 January 2012 at 15:42, Mark DuBois wrote:

> Hi everyone:
> 
> We have been taking the approach mentioned at the URL below for several
> years for our Web Professional certifications. Specifically, there is a
> "quiz" part and a "practicum" part. It took meetings with many business and
> industry participants over the course of several years to get the necessary
> domains and subdomains right. It is a significant amount of work.
> 
> Best,
> Mark DuBois (Mark@webprofessionals.org (mailto:Mark@webprofessionals.org)) 
> Director of Education, World Organization of Webmasters
> http://www.webprofessionals.org 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Mills [mailto:cmills@opera.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:56 AM
> To: public-webed@w3.org (mailto:public-webed@w3.org)
> Subject: Fronteers certification - opinions?
> 
> Fronteers, the dutch web developer community, are making serious progress on
> creating a certification - see http://wnas.nl/fronteers-certification for
> more details.
> 
> Wilf has asked for some opinions on this - does anyone have any. And if so,
> can they share them here, or on twitter with the #frontcert hashtag?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Chris Mills
> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com (http://dev.opera.com) editor, Opera Software Co-chair,
> web education community group, W3C
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