People hold differing about whether or not the reliance of traditional examinations in evaluating educational performance. I firmly believe that ‘pen and paper’ exams are still the crucial methods of education.
Firstly, traditional tests play a vital role in preventing cheat and ensuring the balance. Cheating behaviors are increasingly popular in the modern world due to the demands for higher scores and the laziness in studying of nowadays’ students. To hamper it, traditional tests are very important, exam sitter can easily monitor and cameras are constructed in designated corners to make sure about the balanced performance in the school. For example, in an overall examination at big school, ‘pen and paper’ assessments are usually preferred, they allocate a specific number of participants for each room to keep an eye on tests and detect potential cheat through suspicious behaviors with easier. Hence, this method may contribute to secured student’s abilities evaluation and real balanced performance for each one. Furthermore, other methods like computing assessments can not make make sure about its safety and security in monitoring examinations because of the limitations of horizons and sounds throughtout a screen.
Secondly, it is easier to students taking a ‘pen and paper’ exams than online exams. In detail, traditional examinations can help participants more in focusing on their tests. It not only bring to them the ease manipulation such as underline and highlighting the important information, but also reduce many diseases relating to eyes and concentration problems, which are commonly appeared in who have to take online tests frequently. Therefore, it significantly contributes to external agents preventation and then give valid scores which are worthy with their proficiency. For instance, taking exams on a computer or a phone can be sometimes strewn on some notifications about messages or games, leading to the distraction on exams, emphasizing the drawbacks of online assessments bring to participants.
In consclusion, I wholeheartly disagree with the perspective that formal examinations are not the efficient methods in assessing educational achievement. Such a assessment bring many advantages, such as cheating preventation or an ease to follow examinations of students.