Surely the purpose of testing is to seperate people into appropriate levels.i.e. the potential rocket engineers seperated from the plumbers and street sweepers. If everyone is passing and everyone is going on to get "degrees" at university what is the point?
2007-10-08 21:25:45 · 4 answers · asked by David V 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
Not necessarily; it depends on whether you're talking about norm-referenced testing or criterion-referenced testing. I guess we won't go into it here, but on a criterion-referenced test, the score on the test is based on how well a person has satisfied the criteria on which the test is graded. If all the people in the class perform well on the criteria, then it's perfectly acceptable for everyone to get a high score on the test.
You may also be forgetting that the people who even get into a university only represent a certain segment of the population. So not everyone is getting degrees.
2007-10-08 21:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thing is most people are fundamentally the same and just as there are (according to you) 7% that don't make the grade, another 3-7% with-in that 93% group would make the rest look thick. But how hard can you make a general exam?
Significant diffrence these days that groups so many people together is the fact that privilage is being taken OUT of the equation, the grade you get is increasingly having little to do with the money your family has and more to do with YOUR ability.
Most of those receiving the best eduction (private) in this country NEED it, with-out it, if they had to suffer the education the poor always used to have to put up with in the past, then THEY would be in the bottom 3%.
So the answer to your question (in my opinion) is that wealth and education continue to be separated, and the more separate they become, the more of the vast majority of people get a good education and can be judged on THEIR abilities. Give 100 people the same education (for a change) and is it not likely that 93 of them will get more or less the same grade? Give 100 people different standards of education and then the results are more mixed!
2007-10-08 21:48:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely none is the answer to your question, but we haven't reached the stage of everyone getting degrees and of those who are getting degrees, not all are getting the top grade. I understand your concern, but we are a long way from reaching your point.
2007-10-08 21:32:04 · answer #3 · answered by derbydolphin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's to let the other 7% know that we expect them to do all the work, while we sit on committees talking about it.
2007-10-08 21:29:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋