Disclaimer: I am attending Park University online B.S. Information Computer Science doubtful anyone on HN would even consider this as a credential or a legitima

Disclaimer: I am attending Park University online B.S. Information Computer Science doubtful anyone on HN would even consider this as a credential or a legitimate learning experience to offer insight on econ exams. Going against the grain here I can understand the student's frustration when tests are implemented to establish a metric that is ultimately attached to a record of sorts and in some cases can affect the psyche of the student. My example that is somewhat related was during a "Web Programming" course we were taught basic things like DHTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. All culminating in a final project of a personal website, nothing to difficult there.However due to the nature of online courses I had to take a test at a proctored location with a computer. One week prior to the exam being sent out instructor notified us that "Administration has mandated this to be a written test." This really threw my game off. I'm not sure any developers have ever tried "writing" a full webpage including CSS and Error checks for form fields on a sheet of paper but it definitely affected my performance on the test. During the class we it was in now way imparted upon us that writing code with a pencil would be our final artifact of having learned something in the course. As much as I and many people I have met attribute intelligence to critical and problem solving skills. The reality of "normal" institutional teaching emphasizes the ability to take tests and remember data only dumping and moving on to another subject to repeat the process. The over arching theme, in my experiences, is that remembering and regurgitating topics in the course was/is the most rewarded endeavor. For some it is very difficult to escape this conditioning of remembering and studying material in order to get the right answers on a test with critical and problem skills existing only as a side effect of "learning".