Thanks.
I think that decimal scoring of students makes more
sense for many reasons.
Is this a separate cause to fight elsewhere, or is
this appropriately part of what the usma would seek?
--- Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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