{"id":35176,"date":"2021-04-23T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=35176"},"modified":"2021-04-23T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:19:22","slug":"the-problem-with-exams-comes-down-to-either-trivia-which-you-shouldnt-need-to-memorize-or-contrived-practical-scenario-trivia-is-fun-but-shows-nothing-about-subject-mastery-if-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=35176","title":{"rendered":"The problem with exams comes down to either: &#8211; trivia (which you shouldn&#8217;t *need* to memorize), or &#8211; [contrived] practical scenario Trivia is fun &#8211; but shows *nothing* about subject mastery If it&#8217;s practical, be sure the situation closely resembles a real-world problem https:\/\/t.co\/GziWCcHR71"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The problem with exams comes down to either:<br \/>&#8211; trivia (which you shouldn&#39;t *need* to memorize), or<br \/>&#8211; [contrived] practical scenario<\/p>\n<p>Trivia is fun &#8211; but shows *nothing* about subject mastery<\/p>\n<p>If it&#39;s practical, be sure the situation closely resembles a real-world problem <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GziWCcHR71\">https:\/\/t.co\/GziWCcHR71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1385583499156017152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>April 23, 2021 at 09:17AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with exams comes down to either:&#8211; trivia (which you shouldn&#39;t *need* to memorize), or&#8211; [contrived] practical scenario Trivia is fun &#8211; but shows *nothing* about subject mastery If it&#39;s practical, be sure the situation closely resembles a real-world problem https:\/\/t.co\/GziWCcHR71 &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) April 23, 2021 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers April 23, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=35176\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The problem with exams comes down to either: &#8211; trivia (which you shouldn&#8217;t *need* to memorize), or &#8211; [contrived] practical scenario Trivia is fun &#8211; but shows *nothing* about subject mastery If it&#8217;s practical, be sure the situation closely resembles a real-world problem https:\/\/t.co\/GziWCcHR71<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-35176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35177,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35176"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=35176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}