The task of the teacher is to serve the students with his knowledge and scientific experience and not to imprint upon them his personal political views. I don't like making them. I don't like giving them. I don't like grading them. I love the feeling that I almost always have early in the semester - that I am communicating material in an effective and interesting manner and everyone in the classroom cares.
Tests have a nasty way of tearing all of that down.
On top of all that, testing at the college level demands that I create instruments which are challenging, but fair. This is not easy. In this environment, I firmly believe that ANY student that is serious about succeeding in my class, can and will. In sum, I hope all of my students feel challenged, but equally comforted by the fact that the path to success is clear and entirely possible. At Northern Illinois University, I routinely volunteered for extra teaching assignments, conducted and published research with graduate students, directed undergraduate student honor's theses, organized and conducted student paper contests, designed professional seminars for graduate students and taught course overloads with little or no compensation.