Standardized Testing in Georgia
With all of the Georgia talk, I wanted to share an article about Georgia’s beta test of a new university admissions exam, similar to the American SAT.
This type of exam will help eliminate the bribery that now plagues young adults and their families across the Former USSR. I hope to see something similar occur in Armenia.
Armenia should implement a baccalaureate system similar to that of Lebanon. It will also up the quality of education. In Lebanon the results are not used by universities, but if people fail the exam, they can’t be admitted except to freshman level (and even then they aren’t allowed to be employed without holding the baccalaureate diploma, unless they sit for the bacc exams as ‘independent’ students). Anyway, Armenia can adopt this system or parts of it and change it so that university admissions are based on the results of the exams rather than school records (schools often change a student’s record to increase his/her chances of getting into university and in turn better the school’s image - this also happens in Lebanon).
Comment by Dan Marsden — 5/10/2005 @ 7:12 pm
Katy and Dan: are you familiar with how higher education matriculation system works in Armenia?
At the final grade, students pass three exams to graduate from school. Then, they must pass an entrance standardized exam and select the school they want to get into. E.g., to get into Polytechnic University, an applicant must take three tests, Physics, Mathematics, and Armenian. The mathematics, Armenian, etc exams arestandard for all who take it, whether they are applying for polytechnic, economics, or elsewhere.
The standardized test system was introduced in Armenia in 1992. Although over years much was done to remove the original egalitarian idea behind the testing, I’d say the system is overall fair.
Comment by Hovakim — 5/11/2005 @ 2:13 am
Again, I was speaking about this to an International NGO head the other day and yes, there’s corruption in the Armenian system. However, he said that there was even more corruption in the Georgian one.
Comment by Onnik Krikorian — 5/11/2005 @ 6:58 am
Does anybody know if the murder of the Dean of Russian Studies at Yerevan State University was ever solved?
University Professor Shot Dead In Yerevan
http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2003/07/972DA4D7-18FB-4182-AE21-2F9C56ACD07D.asp
Comment by Onnik — 5/11/2005 @ 8:39 am
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