Regards,
Charlie - Member, National Association of Mailing List Lurkers. ;-)
I believe it was Arie Dirkzwager who once said:
[...]
> I developed an interactive (computer based) testing method called
> "TestBet" as a mathematically/psychometrically sound alternative to Multiple
> Choice. No forced guessing when you don't know. It teaches realistic
> self-assessment as an aside ("personal effectiveness": disencourageing
> unwarranted certainty and recognizing what you *really* know), it enhances
> studying for perfect and sure knowledge (not for the superficial sloppy
> knowledge that meets the criteria to pass a MC-test), and give for each
> individual on each item exact diagnostic information on the "state of
> knowledge" on a continuous scale of measurement: from "serious fallacy" up
> to "perfectly known", not just the MC dichotomy of "good" (may be guessed
> good) vs. "wrong" (either consciously "unknown" or thinking it was right and
> holding a serious fallacy).
> I could send a free demo to anyone interested when you give me your
> surface mail address.
>
> Arie
>
> Prof.Dr.A.Dirkzwager,
> Educational Instrumentation Technology,
> Computers in Education.
> Huizerweg 62,
> 1402 AE Bussum,
> The Netherlands.
> voice: x31-35-6933258
> FAX: x31-35-6930762
> E-mail: aried@xs4all.nl
>
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> When reading the works of an important thinker, look first for the
> apparent absurdities in the text and ask yourself how a sensible person
> could have written them." T. S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension (1977).
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> Accept that some days you are the statue, and some days you are the bird.
>
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