Hi, Eddie,
Welcome aboard.
On the issue of test scores, I believe that the answer would be for the US to adopt
decimal grading systems for evaluation of students. I strongly believe it would be
about time you guys abandon this mediocre 4-alpha scale that has been plaguing North
America.
This would certainly help get people more comfortable with decimal concepts, which
make a lot more sense than some silly 800-point GMAT scale/ 1500-SAT point scores and
a host of other nonsense (Gee, where do these people come with so many
incomprehensible, irrelevant types of scores???... :-S).
KISS should be high in the minds of educators across this country, I'd say...
Marcus
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:31:37
eddie lechat wrote:
>I believe in standardization of measurement. Therefore
>I am for metrication.
>
>One place where we seem to have less and less
>standardization is in the testing of students in our
>public schools. When I was little, things were simple.
>All the national tests would give you a percentile
>ranking for the student in each subject. That was
>standardized. That made sense. That I understood.
>
>But now a school district tries to confuse the
>parents. You get test scores which are not capable of
>being compared across the county or state or country.
>
>Is it off-topic or is it consistent and part of what
>we want to do for us to promote standardization of
>public school tests through advocating that all tests
>always be capable of reducing to one's percentile
>ranking?
>--- "Hu, Alfred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes unfortunately Reagan abolished it in 1982.
>> Among other stupid things he
>> attempted to do was to get rid of Amtrak in 1985,
>> the nation's only
>> passenger rail service. I barely sleeped a wink.
>> Glad Amtrak is still around.
>>
>> I remember a bumper sticker that says "Real men
>> don't eat jellybeans"!!!
>>
>> alfred
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: eddie lechat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:10 PM
>> To: U.S. Metric Association
>> Subject: [USMA:13468] Re: Thanks, Eddie!
>>
>>
>> Has the metric board (which was in existence back
>> during Carter) been abolished?
>> --- "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > In USMA 12413 Eddie Lechat asked:
>> >
>> > >I would like to have somebody share with us some
>> > >proposed resolution in favor of metrication which
>> > we
>> > >might bring to various scientific and political
>> and
>> > >civic and business and labor groups.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have searched my archives to find a resolution
>> > that the Canadian
>> > Information Processing Society adopted in 1968
>> > urging the Canadian
>> > government to switch the country to SI.
>> > Unfortunately I have been able to
>> > find, so here is how I would word a resolution
>> > today;
>> >
>> > OBSERVING that 95 % of the world's population uses
>> > the International System
>> > of Units (SI) for all measurements;
>> >
>> > AND OBSERVING that US exports would be facilitated
>> > if all dimensions were
>> > dimensioned and expressed in round SI terms;
>> >
>> > AND OBSERVING that the use of the SI in the United
>> > States for all
>> > measurements would save unnecessary arithmetic and
>> > would simplify all
>> > measuring;
>> >
>> > THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the US Govrnemnt
>> should
>> > establish a Metric
>> > Board charged, in consultation with the various
>> > sectors of manufacturing,
>> > commerce and education, to draw up time-limited
>> > schedules for conversion of
>> > all measurement activities to the SI.
>> >
>> > Joseph B. Reid
>> > 17 Glebe Road West
>> > Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416
>> > 486-6071
>> >
>>
>>
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