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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It might be fun to have FCPS reach out to Amazon and other employers in the area and ask for their input in developing a test that incorporates real world problems and skills.  WOuld be so cool if it was completely unpreppable because it was completely different each year.  
One year it's like a test for All Soul's College at Oxford.  You walk in and there's one word on the paper:  Equality, or something, and then students can demonstrate what they know about that topic.
Next year, you get a text telling you that your interview will take place, maybe even live in person, the next day at 3 PM.  You show up and get grilled by a panel of teachers, like a standard Oxford exam.  THey can ask you anything they want about math or science.
Next year, you get told to show up at a certain location and it's the engineering problem from that show about the shuttle crash.  You are given some random materials and told to construct something.
Following year, it's a GROUP project with the raters behind a glass window (like the foreign service exam), and you are rated not only on the content of your responses, but also on how well you work with others.
The beauty would be that you literally had no idea what they were going to ask, and chances are it would involve creativity.  And getting along well with other humans.
Maybe one year it is making a video demonstrating some engineering principle and the next year it's a written essay about some physical science principle.  
No matter what it is, you can come up with a standardized rubric, [b]but the point is that no one ever knows what it's going to be[/b].[/quote]

That last point is the big key. And I would even argue that there should be multiple paths. If all you're doing is looking for a specific type of kid, you're going to get a huge number of kids who are all too similar - and that's very much what you have right now to the detriment of everyone involved.

But what you can't do is have one path. If you have one path then the people with resources and motivation will wear out that path and do whatever is necessary to make their kid look the most like the kid at the end of that path, even if they're not the best fit at all - and again, that's very much what you have right now to the detriment of everyone involved.[/quote]

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