On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Forrest Tiffany wrote:
> "A.R. (Tom) Peters" wrote:
> > Of course we should limit them! If they use it, it is in the exams
> > which means that we require the candidates to know about it. In which
> > case it should be in our list or objectives.
>
> Well, I can tell you get the first part of my point. However, I think
> you
> are missing the second part. It is quite possible (although I can't
> think
> of an example for PHP) that a concept which will not be tested until a
> later
> exam will be mentioned in a lower level exam. I will give you an
> example,
> however note that I don't think this particular term will be a term
> that
> would be a problem, but lets look at SCSI. I don't think the details of
> SCSI would be necessary to be known at level one, but I might want to
> say
> something about the SCSI disk attached to the system. I am not making
> this
> argument for any of the obvious terms. I am making it for the terms
> which
> are not obvious.
>
> If we intend the list to be a study aid, then yes we may want to
> separate
> the different terms into categories based on the test level (or some
> other
> method). However, as a tool for test creation, I think this would be a
> counter-productive idea. A list of terms is just that a list of terms.
> If I am to talk about something I should use the correct term. And this
> list is the source to determine if the term I used is the correct one.
> It
> doesn't matter how advanced I am. I feel that we should make the list
> to be used as a tool, not a constraint, and putting levels next to terms
> could become constraining for test developers.
I think I get your point, but OTOH: why would item writers bring up
advanced topics in their questions that are NOT part of the exam content?
It can only confuse things. Maybe we should actively discourage them to
do so!
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