{"id":3097,"date":"2016-01-25T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T00:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2016-01-25T18:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T00:42:54","slug":"why-do-we-give-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/01\/25\/why-do-we-give-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we give tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is, or are, the point of tests? \u00a0Is it really just to assess master of material? \u00a0So goes the assumption of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22930542-500-hate-exams-now-a-computercan-grade-you-by-watchingyoulearn\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> by\u00a0Aviva Rutkin in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (2 January 2016):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new algorithm could both improve your knowledge and do away with formal tests altogether. Developed by researchers at Stanford University and Google in California, it analyses students\u2019 performance on past practice problems, identifies where they tend to go wrong and forms a picture of their overall knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But I think mere assessment is a little naive. \u00a0Tests are, by their nature, pressure-cookers, and the ability to perform under pressure is an essential part of the human experience. \u00a0I don&#8217;t like it; I hated tests. \u00a0But you must recognize they force students to prepare and to perform; those who do neither come to know their failures and adapt &#8211; or drop out.<\/p>\n<p>No one lives a stress-free life &#8211; so why not prepare for it as a by-product of learning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is, or are, the point of tests? \u00a0Is it really just to assess master of material? \u00a0So goes the assumption of this article by\u00a0Aviva Rutkin in NewScientist (2 January 2016): A new algorithm could both improve your knowledge and do away with formal tests altogether. Developed by researchers at \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/01\/25\/why-do-we-give-tests\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}