> dcontesti (Contributor I) mentioned you in a post! Join the conversation below:
> Rob, I don't ever remember a dictionary being allowed in the testing
> centers (exam rooms)
Well, of course. You were a mere Board member. *I*, on the other hand, was an
instructor!
Seriously, though, we did have to confirm a lot more about the details of the exam
and process, since we got so many questions during the seminars. The dictionary
thing was one we heard regularly in the instructors' meetings. I even confirmed it
with the pyschometrician at one point.
>.......even when I wrote the exam in 1995, they were not
> allowed.......things must have changed at some point.
A not unlikely possibility. I know that [foreign language]/English dictionaries
were allowed by 2001. I think I last had it conformed in 2008, when the
translated tests were on offer. It's quite possible that the rules have changed again,
since we've had the change in pschometric outfits, and then the change to
computer-based exams, and now the change to CAT.
> I actually think that
> a dictionary would English to whatever would/could provide an unfair
> advantage......and in some cases might lead the candidate to the correct answer.
Not too sure how much of an advantage a [foreign language]/English dictionary
would be, since it doesn't actually provide any definitions. And I recall my times
as a college/uni instructor. I used to offer open book exams. I stopped when it
got too painful watching kids who hadn't paid attention during the course came in
loaded down with resources and spent the whole exam madly flipping through
material they didn't understand vainly looking for the answer ...
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