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> but in the end, it's just a way to rank "fairly" to create cut-off, to look too deeply into it is not worth it, that's the job for your regular school educati
by hgomersall 4y ago
> but in the end, it's just a way to rank "fairly" to create cut-off, to look too deeply into it is not worth it, that's the job for your regular school education.
Except, presumably, when there are debates about how the tests benefit or not one particular cohort?
- ryzvonusef 4y agoDo they really? As compared to any other system? Tests seem to be the cheapest, timely (OCR-marked tests can be marked quickly) and most equitable (in comparative terms, not absolute terms) way to gauge people when you have a lot of them. Any other methods increases cost and time, and introduces subjectivity, which creates issues of its own.