Questions to Ponder:
1. What are some kinds of tests you have taken? What are their names?
2. What does passing a test represent?
3. What is a standard?
4. What is a standardized test? Is it different from any other test?
5. Ｗhat do standardized test scores measure?
6. What are typical questions on a Taiwanese test?
7. What are some of the questions on the French test?
8. Do you feel testing people is important?
9. Do you feel it is important to have a standard?
10. Do you feel it is important to measure up to a standard?
11. Do you feel it is important that tests are standardized?
12. Do you find test taking interesting? Easy? Emotional? Frustrating? Angry-making? Crazy-making?
13. When you think about taking the JEA, what do you feel?
14. What do you feel when you think about ‘measuring up to a standard’? Confident? Scared? Indifferent? Pissed off? Resentful?
15. What do you feel when you think about ‘Standardized test scores?’ Does your body have a reaction?
16. When you think of the questions on the Taiwanese test, what do you feel? What kind of quality do they have?
17. When you read the questions on the French test, what kind of feeling does they give you? What kind of quality do they have?
19. What are the purposes of a testing system?
20. What are standards for?
21. Ｗhat do standardized test scores measure?
22. Do you think they truly measure a standard? I.e. is a standard measurement of people attainable?
23. Do they help people judge if someone is ready for a job or other task?
24. Why do we test people? What do we gain by it?
Discussion Question: Of French and Taiwanese tests, which better measures the person taking it?
法國2011年高中會考哲學科考題揭曉！Bac philo
【TEWA 歐洲教育新聞/2011.06.17/法國】法國高中會考哲學科考題揭曉！
法國六月此時正舉行高中會考(le baccalauréat, 簡稱le bac)，近日舉行哲學科考試(簡稱Bac philo)，五十萬考生可以在各組三道題目中擇一申論，今年考題普遍以科學與人類關係為主軸。
文學組考題：
-我們是否能證明科學假設？
-人類是否注定泡製自身的幻像/想像？(人類注定活在自身形成幻覺中?)
-試解釋尼采著作「歡愉的智慧」一書選文(Gai savoir/Die fröhliche Wissenschaft)
理組考題
-文化是否會改變人類原來的樣態？(文化是否讓人脫離自然的原貌？)
-即使與事實相違背的情況下，我們是否可能依然有理？
-試解釋帕斯卡(Pascal)「思想錄」(les Pensées)書中選文
經濟與社會組
-「自由」是否受「平等」威脅？(自由是否因平等而受限)
-與科學相較，我們是否比較不需要藝術？(相較科學，人文藝術Art是否較不必要?)
-試解釋塞內卡(Sénèque/Seneca)著作「論恩惠」(les Bienfaits)書中選文
音樂與舞蹈組
-如果要掌握自我，是否必須先了解自己？
-當我自己感受到不公平存在，是否能因此學習到什麼才是公平正義？
-試解釋尼采一段選文
(括弧內文為台灣留歐哲學博士修訂版)
題目原文請參考
http://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2011/06/16/bac-le
法媒請學者解析經濟組哲學考題(編按：台灣報社編輯會這麼做嗎？)
http://www.laprovence.com/article/a-la-une/corrige-du-bac-philo-une-problematique-et-un-plan-pour-deux-dissertations
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/06/14/01016-20110614ARTFIG00450-les-sujets-du-bac-de-philosophie-2011-a-l-etranger.php(â)
by: Taiwan EU Watch
