Apparently, multiple-choice exams are a staple diet in Happy Valley. More than 700 courses at University Park required students to take computer-scored exams last year. But the problem is that these exams fatten you up when employers have their eyes on sprinters, not Sumo wrestlers. Today's competitive job market is unfortunately littered with the resumes of unhappy people who happily passed multiple-choice exams.
Companies exist to solve problems.
We all know this. While everyone knows that human beings write the questions, machines just post the grades. Joe L. Kincheloe, who teaches in the College of Education, has never given a multiple-choice exam. His students say that he works his fingers to the bone and his eyes are sometimes as bloodshot as a roustabout's. While everyone knows that human beings write the questions, machines just post the grades.