People like to complain about testing and what they really measure, but what alternative is there? Even a "real world" problem is still a test, just a really h

People like to complain about testing and what they really measure, but what alternative is there? Even a "real world" problem is still a test, just a really hard, open-ended one. The tests that we subject students to represent somebody's honest attempt, at least, to create questions that an intelligent person at their age can come up with an answer to without access to any external material.