ETD's, calculators and the exam

[Richard Brekne]

"Kevin E. Ramsey RPT" wrote:

>      I agree with Willem, somewhat.. The current tuning test is set up in
> such a way, that even if someone regularly uses an ETD to tune with, they
> must have a pretty good idea of how to tune aurally. I've heard "old timers"
> say that they want to keep their membership dues up to date, just because
> the exam is a lot more difficult now than it used to be.
>     I regularly tune with an ETD, but I passed the tuning exam with an
> average score of 98%.
>     I really think that if someone is a good aural tuner, buying and using a
> SAT can really take your tuning to the next level,,,,, provided you know
> what you're doing. I think most of the objections to ETD's on this list are
> to people who DON'T  know how to tune using them, and just "stopping the
> lights". "There, it's correct, see, the lights say so."  It's that kind of
> behavior that gives the machines a bad name.
>    -

Yes... well... let me see... how is it that you suppose that we should be able
to idendify whether an examinee can do more then just stopping the lights if the
test requires no more of them then to do just that ? I am open enough to using
ETD's in a testing proceedure, but not at the cost of being able to confirm
aural skills.

Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no