Today and next week I will be taking my major field study and general education exams. So long as I take them, these exams will have no bearing on whether or not I'll graduate or will impact my transcript, so why take them?
Because the campus MAKES us take them. I'm sure that this rule probably comes from a higher power than the campus (my guess would be the Board of Regents). They are used as a statistical evaluation of the campus's effectiveness and efficiency in their training of us students. They use the rhetoric that our involvement is important because our involvement will help strengthen the power behind our diplomas.
The process is not something that I agree with. I am not a fan of tests, because I feel that they are an inaccurate evaluation of the taker's skill. I have known extremely intelligent people who are extremely skilled in a certain area, yet they fail the tests they are required to take for a variety of reasons. On the other hand, I've watched fools who could memorize a list of terms make high scores on such evaluations without understanding the subject matter.
But to get the information they need, they must create standardized tests. Like it or not, they're a necessary evil. But at least, we the students are not being graded upon it.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
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