Posted on 04/27/2012 7:24:15 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Thanks for citing Griggs v. Duke Power. I knew of the case and its relevance but I couldn’t name it just now.
Of course, now that college degrees mean little more than that the bearer paid a bunch of money for a sheet of paper, companies are once again bringing back “assessment tests”...ON TOP OF the degree.
Interesting.
I must admit that I am ignorant of assessment tests. Are they some kind of tests to determine what the student learned in college? Or sre they different from that?
I know that my college administered a series of tests along the lines of what we learned of a grouping of broad categories (history of western civilization, mathematics, etc), but you are saying that companies do this, so the subjects certainly would be different.
Please advise.
My cousin “accidentally” got on a waiting list for a college diploma he wanted because the registrar’s office were idiots (his description).
Eventually he got bored and saw the adult education course for HVAC and plumbing. Years later/fast forward, he owns pretty much the contracts for multiple condos and small hotels in downtown. Plumbers and electricians make more money than 9-5 clerks.
I’m not entirely clear on them myself...about the best I can figure out is that they’re geared towards understanding the testee’s thought processes as well as knowledge.
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