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Would You Pass the Information Literacy Test?

Posted by timothy on from the big-stupid dept.

Grundelfeldsten writes "The Educational Testing Service -- the maker of the SAT and the GMAT -- has a new test called the Information and Communication literacy assessment. The test is designed to measure your "ability to make sense of the multiple streams of information that our computers throw at us every day," according to a Wired News reporter who just took it and described the process. The questions focus on completing tasks with Internet technologies, like using search engines efficiently and weeding out irrelevant email messages. Are such tasks really tied to technology? Or is "Information and Communication literacy" just a way for ETS to make money by selling more tests?"

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  1. about as much worth.... by rshoger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    about as much worth as our university system this SAT racket is.

  2. Re:SAT, ICT and Smoke Tests by Adrilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So basically your counter argument is "Who wasn't racist in 1925?" That makes no sense, it's 80 years later and we're just now trying to fix it?

    I hate to sound like your mom but, "If all of your friends jumped off a bridge...."

    --

    "Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
  3. How long before we see 'Sale on at Walmart' by NoMercy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's really getting obscene... and who the hell gives a damn that there's a new test available, I hoped it was some comic 'how good are you on a computer test' as that would add more value to my day than knowing that some company is trying to make money out of selling tests to employers and educational establishments.

  4. A better test question, only two choices: by syntap · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you install

    a) Slackware, or
    b) Ubuntu

    My best sig is this one.