Re: Fronteers certification - opinions?

A multiple-choice test doesn't have to be based on rote memorization, 
and can test understanding. For example, you could use a problem-based 
approach where all the relevant elements, attributes, and properties are 
given, but examinee has to pick the combination of them that best 
represents a certain principle. But this is what I meant by doing it 
"really right" is hard.

--Janet


On 1/10/12 9:46 AM, Lewis Nyman wrote:
> 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
>> Twitter: @Mark_DuBois
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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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