09-21-2009, 05:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2009, 07:15 PM by RespectableGent.)
Quote:I strongly disagree here.
I took only a few "tests" to get credits for languages, but I can assure you they were not 'easy', but thoroughly tested whatever was to be covered. Of course I took those exams with a university and I have no idea about how other exam formats work.
What are you talking about? That you took tests for actual courses?
CLEP and DANTES tests are different. They're designed so that anybody could come off the street and rack up RA verbal reasoning credits. Large public universities are also in on the fact that people want their degree for little study and effort. They know that they're never going to sucker working moms into signing a $70,000 loan for a full program. That's why they market their tests instead and trick them into thinking that their experience is worth as much as a college education.
They call it "competency based evaluation" and give you a series of work aptitude tests which a fifth grader could pass.
If you question the validity of the tests, they'll throw this in your face: www.laspau.harvard.edu/idia/mecesup/readings/CDIO/Competency-BasedLearningModels.pdf
Western Governor's University is an example of a place that does this. And just to stop people from asking question they'll include an optional impossible test in advanced calculus here and there to make it seem as if their academic quality isn't entirely bankrupt.