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Re:University of Wisconsin to offer degrees based on tested ... by wildgift on Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:30AM (#5119866)
How is evaluation "tough" if you have the entire corpus of the student's work in a course? There's less need for testing if you can see all their work. The point of testing is to come up with a simple statistic that sums up someone's knowledge and performance.
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Re:University of Wisconsin to offer degrees based on tested ... by danielweber on Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:42PM (#5121873)
It's hard to make sure it's the student and not Joe Blow who he hired to take the test for him, especially remotely.
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