Test sharing issues

On Aug 11th, Mon, eSchool news posted this news article: "Postyourtest.com raises ethical concerns California-based web site called ‘worrisome’ by some By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor, eSchool News" which you may read at http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/news-by-subject/research/index.cfm?i=54822&page=1.
In reply to the concerns there placed, I responded with:
As a teacher, it is easy to see why teachers would prefer the use of multiple choice or closed ended question tests. Essay type or open ended questions exam correction is slower and can lead to subjective evaluations that are debatable, whereas closed questions are objective, quicker to correct and hardly debatable (unless you are really bad at creating this type of questions). Which takes me to the next comment on this issue: while essay type question tests are very easy and quick to make, the closed question and multiple choice ones are not easy at all, they require lots of planning and execution to develop and mostly get refined to excellence by use; which would explain why teachers get attached to their creations for a long time.
The other side, as a student, I have a great dislike for multiple choice tests; mostly because their creators don’t really know how to develop them and greatly because the concept is devious. Let’s see, the principle is that there should be 1 correct answer(although not too outwardly right to be singled out immediately) , one that is absolutely wrong but would sound right to someone who knows nothing about the subject and then 2 or 3 more created as “distracters”. Yes, that’s it! These distracters are created with the sole purpose to measure the height of your in-between-knowledge in case you don’t spot the right one, by giving you wrong answers that look right because of carefully placed clauses or modifiers. This amounts to using trickery to see if you fall into a trap, and in student survival I can see why trying to study from a certain teacher’s tests would make sense.
Having stated the above, Sartris position, "The site seems more focused on enabling users to get to the test that they might have to face with a given instructor than it is on providing learning guidelines about the things that are important enough in the course to appear on a test.", although learning guidelines about the things that are important enough in the course to appear on a test is clearly the middle point we would all hope for, it fails to recognize that each teacher has a different style, these are not standardized tests we are talking about; therefore, although it’s great to have different styles of the same type of question for one subject, effectiveness by working on the precise style of your teacher will teach you how to identify which questions are relevant to him (her)and how right answers can be identified, learning by doing, hands on. Isn’t that the real way to learn?
Teachers have to wake up to the fact that this is a Globalized World, no kidding! And that they have to keep up refreshing their courses, contents, procedures and tests to the demands of this new world. Having their tests out there for others to use and study can turn into an enriching collaborative opportunity where they can improve on their testing style and contribute to others, while helping their students develop the skills necessary to function, clear obstacles and solve problems in the 21st century, with 21st century tools available to them.
Someone must have been tickled the wrong way by comments to this article; for since my posting, shortly thereafter all comments posted to the news have just disappeared.

Conference Update

Curite will be formally presented to fellow teachers and other eduaction researchers at e-Learn 2008 Conference in Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday November 18 @ 3 p.m.
All comments by invited bloggers will be appreciated at this time so that by then all quirks and questions related to it may have been taken care of and discussed at length.
Thanks in advance