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In one of the comments, Fred writes "I'd like to do to standardized testing what napster did to the music biz". Napster as a phenomenon was possible because th
by babyshake 18y ago
In one of the comments, Fred writes "I'd like to do to standardized testing what napster did to the music biz".
Napster as a phenomenon was possible because the cost of distributing music had fallen close to zero. But testing is different than music, because the value of test material as a reliable measure of proficiency is lost as it is propogated, while the value of an MP3 is preserved, regardless of how many times it is copied.
After all, test material, unlike songs, is subject to cheating. All it takes is a Google search to compromise the reliability of an assessment.
If you want your tests to be reliable measures of proficiency in a given area, then you need a way of creating test material more quickly than ever before.
- ph0rque 18y ago> If you want your tests to be reliable measures of proficiency in a given area, then you need a way of creating test material more quickly than ever before. I wonder if it was possible to take a block of text, and automatically generate question&answer pairs from it using some kind of AI software (probably bayesian networks combined with grammar rules).
- Raphael 18y agoI know a great algorithm: Mechanical Turk.
- babyshake 18y agoQuestion and answer pairs would be too difficult to do automatically, or semi-automatically. Fill in the blanks would be easier, since all you would need to do is isolate a correct answer, and then retrieve wrong answers. And then make an interface that would make it easy to crop or edit the quiz item in a few seconds.....