Which is tougher?

The Money and Banking Dantes, or the Organizational behavior Dantes?




Abner

 

Organizational behavior was

MM

 

I passed Org Behavior with zero studying.

I have never taken Money and Banking and can not compare the two.

 

I also passed Org Behavior with zero studying and failed Money and Banking. Guess where my vote is

 

At the risk of invoking the ire of Lawrie Miller, if people can pass a test such as this with zero studying, doesn't this bring into question whether the test is measuring anything useful?

Please be aware of two things. 1) I have no problem with the general idea of people "testing out" of courses. 2) I have never taken a CLEP, Dantes test in my life (so I don't know what they're like).

 

For my part, org behavior covered job related knowledge that I have picked up over the years. Every CLEP/DANTES test I have taken was that way.

 

I passed some based on knowledge gained from other readings and taking CCU courses. I never "studied" for these test but I was able to pass based on knowledge gained from other sources. I passed one (Here's to Your Health) because I had a pulse and a few ( Intro to Law, intro to Criminal Justice, etc.) were passed because I watched some old Hawaii 5-0 episodes!!

 

Here are the pass rates for all of the DANTES tests:

http://tinyurl.com/4pgefr

 

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I've taken a lot of them. It does measure what it is intended to measure (there is a big study about the test's validity and reliability- can't recall it and didn't save it) It's not the test, it's the test taker.

The thing is, you have to remember that the test is for a 100 or 200 level class (which you might do when your 17-20 if you are a traditional student). If your 18 years old, the exam might require a lot of studying, and be considered "hard." If your 40something with over 20 years working? In that case, you'll walk away thinking "that was common sense!" (which it isn't really, but it may seem like it if you already have 20 years exposure)

It isn't supposed to be hard in order to be valid, it's assessing your ability to recognize/recall entry level information about a subject.

I often hear adults (even successful ones) worry that they can "cut the mustard" when they try to go back and earn a degree they wish they earned 20 years ago. They remember early years of classes as being hard, but what was hard was actually only "new" information.

Of course most adults don't have too much trouble learning the information if they go back to school, it's usually something else that presents as a barrier this time around. (family, work, finances, time, etc)