[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I merely attributed extensive usage in this form it to American regional
> variation of English. I would say 'what are your performance measures?'
> whereas I have heard Americans say 'what are your performance metrics?'.
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That is also a rather common buzzword in Educationalese, a language
noted for saying less with more verbiage. In that regard it is similar
to Bureaucratese.
If we were to eradicate all the journal articles and other documents in
the field of Pedagogy that contain "rubric", "paradigm", "empower", or
"metric(s)" then we would have done mankind a great service. One person
could carry in one hand what was left. And carrying that to the trash
would be a further service.
Jim
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Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!"
James R. Frysinger, LCAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/
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