Greetings!
Thanks for your very concrete and helpful insights on the developing Translation Exam. We three are in agreement in almost all matters and have some interesting points to discuss as we move ahead.
Before we finalize most of our recommendations as a committee, I thought it would be helpful to test some of the suggestions in a questionnaire format among the three of us. When we have collected our three opinions on most points, then I would like to suggest that we invite the Executive Committee to also respond to the questionnaire -- and perhaps, if either of you can argue yay or nay, the Trustees -- so that we, eventually, can share a slightly wider discussion of some of the items, while at the same time prescribing the discussion off e-mail. I am hoping that this would be a model for future iterations of the exam, since juries and committees will rotate, and we would be prudent about future changes in the Executive Commitee, or our vision.
So this is merely to see how useful a questionnaire would be in conducting work of this sort, and not an implication of dissension. ConstantContact provides this service free of charge with our current tier, and so, we could implement it in other ways (reviewing tours or exchanges) as well, in the future.
I made 19 questions under the headings of Composing the Exam, Eligibility, The Jury, Scoring and Prizes. I leave an open-ended box to help us nudge our way to dimensions we may not have thought about. It should take you 5 minutes to complete -- we've all thought about these questions and I have notes in e-mails from you both. If we expand the questionnaire to the Executive Committee and/or the Trustees, it may require 10 minutes or a bit more, since it will be a fresh brainstorm for them.
I am open to your ideas about whether this has a future value. I care a great deal not so much about punctilio but that most contingencies that can be anticipated -- and my experience in committee work tells me that something unforeseen always comes up!
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