Assessment... do you want THIS one or THAT one...

ETS has a new assessment tool, called the "MAPP - Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress" Some kind of multiple choice test. And they even are offering an essay test that is graded by computer. Imagine that. (Here picture of old man sitting on rocking chair on front porch of midwestern town, smoking corncob pipe, as the automatic essay grading machine rolls by...."What in tarnation will they think of next?")

For a interesting discussion of assessment- mostly of the cranky negative kind- see the blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education ; the links there will also take you to lots of other relevant discussions.