From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3c71c73810e4b27f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp.abs.net!news.abs.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada95 skills test - Beta version(FREE) References: <1140536659.668454.34800@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1140627769.326817.51520@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> From: Stephen Leake Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ps1iMSAiSHkxNBQT2vwdP8pmEh8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:33:48 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.159.65.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@toad.net X-Trace: news.abs.net 1140662037 66.159.65.1 (Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:33:57 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:33:57 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3087 Date: 2006-02-22T21:33:48-05:00 List-Id: "SaraL" writes: > We are currently working on this. I realize it makes people quit the > process and have requested that a change be made so that participants > can go directly to the beta test. I apologize for the inconvenience. Hmm. I wouldn't give much weight to a person who is unwilling to give a name. It would help if you added a clearer 'opt-out' feature to your privacy policy, perhaps specially for beta testers, so you promise not to send me _anything_ not related to the beta test if I give you my email. > The process is actually much quicker than you think though, please > still give it a shot! For me, the issue is not speed, but privacy and spam. It might help if you offered some actual benefit to beta testers. Maybe a free rating on one of your other tests. I started taking the test. I found it very frustrating that the test did not tell me what you thought the correct answer to each question is. Maybe you will at the end, but I'd rather put in comments on the right answer along the way. I stopped after 10 questions, because it's getting late; I'll do more tomorrow. It's very easy to "cheat" by running each code sample thru a real compiler for each question. I don't see how to avoid that short of requiring physical presence at a proctored exam. Hmm. Perhaps you could present the code as an image (.png), so it could not be copied. Somebody will then use optical character recognition on it, but most people won't. Some of the questions are good, some are way to hard for anyone but language lawyers. -- -- Stephe