In our never ending quest to deliver fine education, the California State University system is now requiring departments to develop a method of assessment that will allow our schools to compare our students' performance with those of other universities. Would you know it? Going to have to be giving our students multiple choice tests of very dubious quality. I recall one question having to do with an increase in government spending, which caused all but one of the following outcomes. One was inflation and another was a fall in the gross domestic product. I forget the others. I suspect that we will eventually have to teach to the test.
I have a good friend who used to be active on the list who was working on a PhD program in accounting on top of his earlier PhD degree in mathematics. He failed his interview leading up to his degree because his professors were asking him questions from introductory texts. He refused to give them the simplistic answers that they wanted, explaining problems with the approach that the introductory texts were taking. Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [email protected] michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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