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Firefighting is actually a really awful example. The practices involved require in-person practica, and there are stages of growth expected. Additionally, for
by halostatue 5y ago
Firefighting is actually a really awful example. The practices involved require in-person practica, and there are stages of growth expected.
Additionally, for any structure of sufficient complexity, the "lead" firefighter will _absolutely_ be requesting and receiving building plans to direct the firefighters to the appropriate locations. Also, like London taxi drivers, fire truck drivers probably have to train on the streets they are protecting. (That said, I do recall stories of firefighters getting lost due to bad GPS directions.)
- filmgirlcw 5y agoThat’s exactly what I said. I said firefighting is an area where you cannot rely on just googling something. You need to know the information, period. I wasn’t talking about in-person or online tests, I was responding to OP who said that that style of testing where you can’t have access to materials is incongruous with how most things work. Quoting myself: > but I'm not sure how many of those careers (air traffic control would be another) would have remote-proctored exams anyway.
- halostatue 5y agoI am saying the exact opposite. The lead firefighter will use her profession’s equivalent of "google" to get the plans for a building that may be more complex (talking to the city planning department, looking in a city database, whatever). They will _not_ know the information by heart, and in a sufficiently large city…cannot. The same applies to the drivers of fire trucks. They’re going to both be trained to drive around for locations and tested on that, but they will also use appropriate tools to get the location. It might be an "enhanced" GPS, but it isn’t going to come down to someone’s memory all the time.