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A comment on Ask HN: What do you think about the current education system?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the current education sys... by bxh on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:11AM (#11799839)
I find the use of examinations and tests to assess the "quality" of the student non-ideal.

It's very possible to perform very well on tests with minimal actual comprehension of the material through memorization. In fact, it's quite possibly easier to memorize solutions than to actually learn to solve them.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the current education sys... by jonobird1 on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:16AM (#11799860)
Do you have a proposed solution to test understanding rather than memory?

I think possibly regular problems. E.g. with learning code, you put each question into a solution by learning the way to do it, and then implement a solution.

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