On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Matt Benjamin spewed into the bitstream:
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MB>FWIW, I strongly concur with Mr. Dowling. An open but vastly
MB>comprehensive framework cannot be devalued by test-prep guides.
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MB>> If you have enough questions, with only a random selection used for each
MB>> exam, such guides cease to be a problem. If every objective has 200 or 500
MB>> or however many questions, the "swot for the test" method becomes
MB>> impractical. You can't remember that many answers. For that matter, the
MB>> process of learning the answers to all those questions would pretty much
MB>> entails comprehensively gaining the knowledge that's being tested for.
MB>> Either way, it works out OK. I admit you couold get an idiot with eidetic
MB>> memory walk in and pass the test without any real understanding, but I think
MB>> that will be rare enough not to worry about.
No it does not cease to be a problem and frankly I seriously doubt that
you'll get anyone from the board to listen seriously to this argument.
It's specious, at best, and illogical, at worst. Remember... LPI is a
non-profit... our goal is *not* to make money nor even to help any one
else do that... our goal is to set a standard and that's what we are
doing... releasing the item pool is nothing but a sure-fire guarantee
that we will have to do it all over again... sooner, and we don't have
the funding to make that happen... it's also unrealistic because we
would have to have 50 times the number of items we have now for the
concept, as stated, to be viable... we do not and after going through
the entire development process for Level I I see no way that we would
ever have that kind of item count!
I would like to suggest, gently, that we could/would be better off
spending our time working on the JASS and preparing Level II rather than
revisiting procedures which we've implemented based on the best in
psychometric practice!
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