How does the NBGE ensure its validity? (How does it ensure that it accurately assesses knowledge?
Validity is a difficult issue for any exam that any instructor generates. How does any exam ensure that it accurately measures the knowledge of each student? Often, knowledge isn’t something that can be easily or objectively measured like the length of a stick. Sometimes we are more perceptive, creative, or have better memories than at other times. Further, knowledge is such a part of a person that it is best to assess knowledge through many forms of measurement and at many times and especially through personal interaction. This is why instructors normally have numerous components to student grades rather than a single test. The more complex the issue the more complex our methods of measurement should be. We should not expect any single test to be exhaustively valid for something as complex as the Greek language. This is especially true for an external exam consisting of 50 multiple choice questions. For this reason we recommend that instructors do not use the exam as the final determi
