Not sure how this works for left-handed people...
Little ridiculous isn’t it?
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Robert J Hayes Jr
5 years ago
Practicing for 30 years, yes Revit and other technology is great, but creativity is sometimes only found from a roll of bumwad!
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Another vote for mediocrtiy.
The computers are robots not the test takers!
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Anonymous
5 years ago
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Anonymous
5 years ago
It’s unbelievable how a profession that relies heavily on paper for school and in practice it’s denied that very thing for the test!! Extremely disappointed
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Keep scratch paper, trying to learn how to write and draw on the slow computer while the nerves are kicking in is the worst thing to do to candidates
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Samuel J Piper
5 years ago
I hate this new system and everything about it. I know that it is being done in bad faith. Pen and paper is vital to the profession, the same profession that you are testing for
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Luis E
5 years ago
Please NCARB get your stuff together
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Caren Lotza
5 years ago
I already have trouble with language barrier and not enough time and although i know 3 fluent languages, i should have right to pencil. Please give me pencil back!
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Leigh Ann Pfeiffer AIA NCARB ARTIST
5 years ago
I am an architect and serve as a voluntary NCARB Licensing Advisor. I implore NCARB to provide candidates a stylus to the caliber of responsiveness of an iPad stylus [or equal] and a digital pad with a minimum screen size no less than 8 X 10 with a multi page note tool with running access flow equal to or better than the level of the Notability app if NCARB is removing the tools of paper and pencil from testing scenarios. Our emerging professionals will create and choreograph a resilient, ethical, and equitable built environment of the future. All testing conditions must support these individuals and match the sophistication of technology that should be accessible to all. Our field thinks and communicates as well as resolves and solves testing scenarios and in the practice of architecture itself in both analog and digital formats. “The hand-eye-mind connection in drawing is natural and fluent, as if the pencil were a bridge that mediates between two realities, and the focus can constantly be shifted between the physical drawing and the non-existent object in the mental space that the drawing depicts.” (Pallasmaa, 2009,60). Respectfully and with great hopes for resolution, thank you for addressing this petition and stated concerns of our community.
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Jasper C
5 years ago
Don't take it away!
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Alicia Pandimos Maurer
5 years ago
I used scratch paper quite a bit. Leave it in
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Absolutely ridiculous to make this change with so little advance notice, never mind the fact that it's asinine to begin with. This is forcing me to change my previously scheduled exam date, because we all know NCARB never gets anything right on the first try.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
To take away a tool so incredibly integral to architects, is an insult to the profession. This is not right, at all.
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Meaghan Rosenthal
5 years ago
Why is it that the PE exams are open book/open note but architect's will not be allowed a single piece of paper? It's pretty crazy, no one works this way.
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Renee Johnally
5 years ago
Taking notes and working stuff out on the computer will be to my detriment.
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Joshua Skinner
5 years ago
absolutely ridiculous to remove such a simple yet powerful tool all for the purpose of what?
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Christopher Anderson
5 years ago
Ridiculous proposal! In what real world situation will you not have the ability to take notes on paper. There are a number of valid test taking strategies dependent on being able to make notes as you take your test.
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RJ
5 years ago
I'm in favor of physical paper and pencil. No digital scratch board please.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
good attorney needed for this. this is as close to unconstitutional as it gets for a body regulating the practice of architecture in this country of laws. if not, the press.
Not sure how this works for left-handed people... Little ridiculous isn’t it?
Practicing for 30 years, yes Revit and other technology is great, but creativity is sometimes only found from a roll of bumwad!
Another vote for mediocrtiy. The computers are robots not the test takers!
-
It’s unbelievable how a profession that relies heavily on paper for school and in practice it’s denied that very thing for the test!! Extremely disappointed
Keep scratch paper, trying to learn how to write and draw on the slow computer while the nerves are kicking in is the worst thing to do to candidates
I hate this new system and everything about it. I know that it is being done in bad faith. Pen and paper is vital to the profession, the same profession that you are testing for
Please NCARB get your stuff together
I already have trouble with language barrier and not enough time and although i know 3 fluent languages, i should have right to pencil. Please give me pencil back!
I am an architect and serve as a voluntary NCARB Licensing Advisor. I implore NCARB to provide candidates a stylus to the caliber of responsiveness of an iPad stylus [or equal] and a digital pad with a minimum screen size no less than 8 X 10 with a multi page note tool with running access flow equal to or better than the level of the Notability app if NCARB is removing the tools of paper and pencil from testing scenarios. Our emerging professionals will create and choreograph a resilient, ethical, and equitable built environment of the future. All testing conditions must support these individuals and match the sophistication of technology that should be accessible to all. Our field thinks and communicates as well as resolves and solves testing scenarios and in the practice of architecture itself in both analog and digital formats. “The hand-eye-mind connection in drawing is natural and fluent, as if the pencil were a bridge that mediates between two realities, and the focus can constantly be shifted between the physical drawing and the non-existent object in the mental space that the drawing depicts.” (Pallasmaa, 2009,60). Respectfully and with great hopes for resolution, thank you for addressing this petition and stated concerns of our community.
Don't take it away!
I used scratch paper quite a bit. Leave it in
Absolutely ridiculous to make this change with so little advance notice, never mind the fact that it's asinine to begin with. This is forcing me to change my previously scheduled exam date, because we all know NCARB never gets anything right on the first try.
To take away a tool so incredibly integral to architects, is an insult to the profession. This is not right, at all.
Why is it that the PE exams are open book/open note but architect's will not be allowed a single piece of paper? It's pretty crazy, no one works this way.
Taking notes and working stuff out on the computer will be to my detriment.
absolutely ridiculous to remove such a simple yet powerful tool all for the purpose of what?
Ridiculous proposal! In what real world situation will you not have the ability to take notes on paper. There are a number of valid test taking strategies dependent on being able to make notes as you take your test.
I'm in favor of physical paper and pencil. No digital scratch board please.
good attorney needed for this. this is as close to unconstitutional as it gets for a body regulating the practice of architecture in this country of laws. if not, the press.