OK, Y'all Talk is cheap. The most useless thing anyone can do is sit around and come up with ideas - for other people to put into action. Sounds nice - give classes with a test at the end. The only problems are: 1. Someone has to make up these tests and keep revising them to deal with issues that inevitably come up. 2. These tests have to meet the legal standards set by US anti-trust law for certifications issued by Trade Associations such as the PTG. Which makes developing, refining and revising these tests a very laborious and time-consuming affair. Ain't gonna happen until we start paying people for their time spent on developing and administering exams - because on the "volunteer driven organization" model that we insist on clinging to, we are currently operating at capacity. Hell, beyond capacity... You can't imagine how much time and effort it takes just keeping up with the issues on the current exams... Then there's the question of where the money will come from - since not a whole lot of people are willing to pay the costs of exams now, when the labor is free (and with the current fee structure, the exam fees don't pay the entire cost of the program). Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100727/211d30a8/attachment.htm>
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