On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:49:54 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> * Anyone can submit test items. LPI only requires that author's rights
> are transfered to LPI, for obvious reasons, which occurs implicitly when
> someone submits an item. LPI cannot effectively enforce an NDA on these
> items. Instead, we provide no information on which, how many, or what
> fraction, of items have actually been used in the test; so the author
> would not have inside information. LPI would publicly challenge false
> statements of any author that he would have special knowledge about exam
> content (for instance to promote training classes).
>
> * Another category of SME's review the test items. Actually, they
> may have written test items themselves too, but they do not get to
> review them. No-one except the person(s) who create the final exams get
> to see all the test items, but the reviewers get to see a significant
> fraction (up to 1/3) of them. These people (including David and me) got
> to sign a general NDA. It has not been explicitly forbidden to work on
> training material, but any use of inside knowledge or advertising of doing
> so would be a violation of the NDA and LPI would take appropriate legal
> action.
Why don't the exams get chosen dynamically from a large pool of questions?
If there are something in the order of 50 times as many total questions as
are actually used, then the questions would not need to be kept secret at
all.
Has this idea been considered?
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