Alan McKinnon said the following on 14.06.2006 19:47: [...] > > I suspect most such items in the exam pool are old ones - I've done a > number of item writing workshops and each time I've been specifically > asked to not play the memorize the man pages game. The item writers > themselves were very happy to hear this and set about writing > excellent items that require you to really think about it. > > It'll take time to build up a good item pool, as old questions can > only be retired if there are new ones to take their place. And this > is an OSS exam anyway, so the best solution is for you to come up > with questions yourself and submit them to LPI. Just remember to > adhere to the security guidelines :-) > >> This is not a direct criticism of the LPIC program as many other >> schemes also use a similar method. An exam should test the ability >> to apply knowledge to accomplish the objects. I think that it would >> be better to give access to a limited number of man pages (and >> perhaps HowTo), in the form of a printed book for the paperbased >> exams, and then test that the candidate understands the tasks and >> where to find the information, rather than requiring that the >> candidate remember some obscure command options. > > This is an interesting idea, but will require that the existing exams > be remade in their entirety. It might work for L3 though as that is > new. >
I've answered the above earlier. It is *not* a matter of old or new items and we do not test if candidates are used to handle with documentation (except one objective where we check if they know where they can find documentation). I do not see any issues with the items we use; in my opinion the issue is that candidates did/do not recognised why we use such items. Off topic: I'm repeating myself but the above "issues" were the reason why I actually started my work within LPI. When I took the 200 beta in 2001 I found such items as were described above and I sent the pretty the same comments to Alan Mead, LPI's psychometrician at that time (I just looked into my archive, it was 2006-10-06). After a rather short discussion I understood the logic behind them and was so attracted that I started to work as a volunteer from then until September 2004 and as a staff member in the certification development since then. Best regards, Taki -- Dimitrios Bogiatzoules Product Developer LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute GnuPG Key ID A7E4D183 http://www.lpi.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpi-german.de
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