NDA Journal 4 Editor’s Message This has resulted in unqualified candidates gaining positions of serious responsibility, particularly in government sectors.5 Everyone lives with testing to one degree or another. I have 9 kids that have been taught testmanship principles with varying degrees of success. We have not been particularly efficient in obtaining our 7, so far, driver’s licenses. Holly (Figure 3) successfully prepped enough to navigate the DMV waters the first time. Kaitlin (Figure 4) passed the first day she went to the DMV. In terms of full disclosure, Katie actually failed initially and was told to come back in a few weeks to try again. Someone said we should just go to another DMV before » References Ramirez A, The Dark history of the Multiple-Choice Test, Edutopia The George Lucas Educational Foundation, May 20, 2013. Kempen P, The Curse and Corporate Cult of Certification in America, J Am Assoc Phys and Surg, 26:2, 39–42, 2001. Orr D, The DAT’s Lost Art, NDAJ 17:1, 4–5, 2015. Hoffmann, B, The Tyranny of Testing, Crowell-Collier, NY, 1962. Ngcukana L, Many government employees not qualified for the positions they hold, City Press, April 12, 2021, https://www.news24.com/citypress/ news/many-government-employees-not-qualified-for-the-positions- they-hold-minister-discloses-in-parliament-20210412, accessed March 25 2023. 1 2 3 4 5 the failure was entered into the computer, which we did immediately, where Katie passed, learning about creative DMV testmanship along the way. After learning, as the number of kids grew, how important testmanship is, our efforts were also rewarded by #5 Andrew’s 4.0 summa cum laude university recognition. Poor #6 Ivy didn’t fare so well with just magna cum laude, secondary to an A- in a dance class (Figure 5). By the way, Andrew and Ivy both lowered the driver’s license curve by initially failing at the DMV. One younger child, Luke, figured out the keys for a stress-free educational experience, kind of, at his all-online Covid-non-crisis-era school. It was a full semester before he and multiple junior high school coconspirators were discovered to have pushed the “submit” button without actually attaching any work. These outside- the-box creative thinkers were ultimately rewarded with self-funded mandatory summer school classes if they wanted to matriculate into high school. But, with a possible silver lining discovery, during the pre-high school intelligence testing at summer school, my temporarily wayward son tested 3–4 years above his grade level…aye. Fight On! 0 Figure 4, Katie had near immediate DMV success Figure 3, Holly in early DMV preparation at Chuck-E-Cheese It is my opinion that creating a test that validly evaluates and ranks the test takers is at least as difficult as sitting for one. However, while test takers are painfully stressed on multiple levels, test creators are not as very little, if anything, about the test affects them personally. Figure 5, Ivy, center, trying to keep up with beautiful Polynesian ladies
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