[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: More Flints/O.W.L. s

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 69637

At 12:26 -0500 on 06/24/2003, Aaron Malone wrote about Re: 
[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: More Flints/O.W.L. s:

>On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:23, mtwelovett wrote:
>>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Marie Jadewalker"
>>I think I've read some discussion on this before, but I'm not
>>convinced that 1 subject = 1 O.W.L.
>
>Simple concurrent idea: each exam (except perhaps Div) had both a
>theoretical and practical section.  Perhaps they're scored separately.

This seems to me to be the most logical answer (and I came up with it 
and posted this theory before going though my archived backlog of 
unread message such as this one). Grading the Theoretical and 
Practical sections separately would seem the fairest method since 
Knowledge (Theoretical) does not imply the ability to apply the 
knowledge (Practical) and vise-versa. I doubt that every spell on the 
Theoretical section will also appear on the Practical so you can have 
someone who "Lucks Out" by being required to perform only Spells S/He 
knows for the Practical while missing questions on the Theoretical 
Section about spells that were not requested to be shown off. You can 
also have the reverse (more probable) situation with the student have 
problems PERFORMING spells that they are qualified to answer 
questions about (ie: The difference between explaining something and 
showing it [due to poor/improper Technique]).

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Bob Rosenberg