Saturday, June 13, 2009

More links ...

Posted by Abi
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  1. SciDev.net: Study criticizes laptops for children scheme [Summarizes a recent study of the OLPC program in Ethiopia].

  2. Jon Dron: What exams have taught me (Example: "the most important things in life generally take around three hours to complete"). And a (limited) defence of the timed exams by John Cook. [Link to Dron's post comes via Sri].

  3. Sri himself has been thinking about the damage done by exams -- particularly the entrance exams.]

Posted by Abi. Posted at 8:35 PM

1 Comments:

  1. madraskaari said...

    The Chinese college entrance system sounds slightly more terrible than the Indian one:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world/asia/13exam.html

    5:45 AM, June 14, 2009

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