sorry, was unclear. robert proposed a meta-certification body which then
gave the tests out to certifiers (netthink, iterative etc). this seems to
me to be far too complicated and fragmented.
i think you need a single organisation which plays the difficult balancing
act of:
* being respected and trusted by the Perl community (there's no
point if the Perl decision makers poo poo it)
* has enough autonomy from the Perl community or transparency to
not be perceived as a guild / closed shop (this accusation could
be levelled very easily if the exam were perceived to be designed so that
only an inner sanctum could possibly pass it)
* has rich enough grading so that mere mortals can achieve some
level of certification and gurus can also be recognised - i
think it is in everyone's interests if lots of new people pass PCSE
at some level (i think there is a strong perception that Perl skills
are hard to find)
* being commercial - particularly focused on marketing the PCSE
logo to training companies, logos and IT directors. I don't
think a voluntary, well-meaning effort will achieve this.
alex
>
> * alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > you don't think having a single body with london.pm representation whose
> > responsibilities would be exam delivery, assessment and certificaiton
> > would be more efficient/effective than what you describe?
> >
> > alex
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
> > > > I think a lot of this will be about signing up to a charter or code
> > > > of conduct. What we will need is an actual exam, i was thinking about
> > > > this last night, and my thoughts were to write a web interface were
> > > > certified certifiers could request 10 tests, by filling the names
> > > > of the recipients in first. Then a script would select questions
> > > > from a database of categorised questions and make up a PDF seperately
> > > > for each of the recipients, the certifier would then supervise
> > > > the recipient completing the test in the allotted time and afterwards
> > > > they would mark it and return it (original hardcopy) to the main body.
> > > > This main body may check one or two, more to ensure that their
> > > > is consistency across certifiers, and assuming that the tests
> > > > were all fine, the certifier would get a nice shiny PDF for each
> > > > of the recipients of the test.
> > > >
> > >
> > > As TIMTOWTDI in Perl, marking could be extremely difficult unless we have
> > > multiple choice questions. Is MSCS multiple choice? SAP is.
> > >
> > > /Robert
> > >
> > >
> >
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