-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sander,
just adding some eurocents ;-) G. Matthew Rice said the following on 17.05.2007 02:22: > Sander van Vugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> sure I've failed". His - IMHO correct - remark: Why should I know the >> difference between blah -d and blah -D if in the real world I would do >> blah --help to find out how it works and use the command appropriately >> within 30 seconds? I couldn't agree to him more, especially after >> listening to some examples about the questions that these people have >> had. Please allow me to elaborate a little. > > I couldn't agree more. To a point. However, if an examinee has to look up > the -l optoin to ls or the -z or -c option to tar, that person doesn't have > enough real experience. And that _will_ be reflected in their score. > > That said, LPI tries to avoid testing obscure options to commands. I second Matt. We are not testing candidate's capability to memorise knowledge, nor do we test how fast someone can gather the needed information, which is available on every machine. Questions of the kind Sander described, help us to gain information about their experience, which is important for a certificate holder. Where I do have a problem is with your sentence "I couldn't agree to him more, especially after listening to some examples about the questions that these people have had". Candidates should be carefully informed that they are not allowed to discuss exam content at all. They also sign in section 3 on the answer sheet, that "I have read and agreed to the non-Disclosure Notice on the front of the Exam Booklet". So I must insist that no discussions about exam content may take place, except if candidates contact LPI directly or by writing down a comment on the coloured paper provided in each paper based exam. [...] > Hmm, perhaps I should start doing a talk on the psychometric process at > conferences. A lot of people probably have no idea what is involved. [...] Not a bad idea, Matt! When I'm training proctors I actually always some psychometrical basics, so that they know why we do some things they way we do them. (Repeating myself: When I took the Level 2 beta exams in 2001, I did not understand why LPI did the exams that way it did, so I contacted Alan Mead directly. Alan was patient enough with me, and explained me a lot. The result was me working for LPI 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTCZXQUbIQKfk0YMRAuzZAJwMM32cNiIOdKMbJymoW62y1kXengCfbDOu rizndmoinb15NbPxsNcAGLk= =ZBcD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
