Everything learned in 12 years of school can be learned online in less than a year...

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[–]lestratege 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Can you imagine college students taking classes at home? That's just DUMB.

That's exactly what's going on in many countries because of COVID. Japan for example.

We're not even talking about test-taking and cheating too.

College level tests should be essays anyway, so cheating is moot.

[–]C3P0 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Essay is the least reliable test format. An essay grade changes depending on the phase of the moon, the professor's nationality, the grader's mood, or absolutely the race and gender of the student (except in colleges where essays are graded anonymously).

Have you seen an essay grading rubric? There is no objective criteria for how many points, say a comma splice, would deduct. It is all based on the grader's dubious professional "experience."

There is a reason standardized tests use multiple-choice or bubble-in-answer formats. They are fair and reliable.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

yeah I ran a lab in grad school and graded kids labs, they were like essays, in order to be fair, the first stapled page had their name on it but I got them together, took the front pages off and graded each one without knowing who the kid was.

[–]bagano1 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You clearly took too many liberal arts classes.