17. Are test scores a good indication of a school’s competency?

Are test scores a good indication of a school's competency?

Competency is a base of knowledge which pupil take from school programme. Of course we can check pupil or student in a different way. Today is very modern TEST, when on the one question is given four or five version and examinee should choose the correct one amidst them. It is very useful to use such way of test, because it's quit, it's could be computerized, it could be un-personal, where person is covered under the number, it could eliminate corruption and bribery, it's easy to test zillions of student during the same period of time.

My experience of test.
To be honest fate have never given my opportunity to pass the tests like described about. Once at the middle of the ninetieth I prepared for the exam called TOEFL, before this I had been studied English grammar during the year, not regularly and not successfully, to my present point of view. One of my friend who was proficiency in English offered my to pass TOEFL and explained how this test used to be built. It was something new for me because I had just finished university and all of the test and exam I had been passed was student-to-teacher or answer-the-question-on-the-paper.

Exam was only student-to-teacher like procedure. What main inconvenience I remember was waiting for your turn behind the door in the live queue. Because how well you had been preparing for exam you depend on luck, on the mood of teacher and your ability to cope with stress. We came into the class one by one and take ticket from the table from the hundred or so tickets. More over we knew contents of every ticket beforehand. In every ticket used to be two theoretical question and one practical, as I studied on the physics-mathematical area practical task was to resolve some problem, put it on the paper and explained teacher afterwards. We had some time for preparation. This subject don't give me possibility to explain how we was deft and show dexterity during this half an hour, and how we prepared for the exam by using different tricks in order to cheat and mislead the teacher.

This way of exam to my mind is obsolete. I could compare it with ancient way of education in Greece when way of education comprise walking with teacher along the street during which teacher transfer his knowledge from him to the pupil and they discuss that knowledge afterwards somewhere in the public bath or on the square. Our society develop and now that developing is very quick so that claim for exams and test changed. Modern demand for quick and efficient and effective education. Of course such a test is not all-embracing. For example my daughter isn't good at writing and don't remember correctly how to write English words. So that such way of test would be godsend to her.

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