[Xmca-l] Re: Asia tops global school rankings

[Ed Wall]

          Although cheating, perhaps, has the reputation of being morally disreputable, it also can be evidence of considerable sagacity (perhaps even what the early Greeks termed ‘metis'). It also seems, and I interpret some of what Michel de Certeau writes in “The Practice of Everyday Life’ in this way, a ’tactical’ response to some sort of ’strategic’ imposition. As such it is, I think, worthy of thoughtful consideration rather than blanket condemnation. 

Ed Wall

On May 13, 2015, at  6:58 AM, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am rooting--quite unironically--for the cheaters; since the psychology
> profession, with a few noble exceptions (such as Bernard Spolsky and
> Stephen J. Gould), has been largely derelict in its duty to expose the
> psychometric frauds, I think the only hope of putting them out of business
> permanently lies in the highly ingenious work of Korean and Chinese
> test-takers, and I wish them all the best.
> 
> The so-called SAT, whose predecessor was designed to keep Jews out of
> academia, now serves much the same purpose with respect to Asians (with, I
> am pleased to say, about the same degree of success). According to Bernard
> Spolsky, the extremely unstable statistical relationship of the "SAT' to
> either "aptitude" (that is, its ability to predict real academic success)
> or "achievement" (that is, its correlation with high school grades) is so
> tenuous that the company no longer claims that "A" actually stands for
> anything ("sat" just means you had to sit down and take a test).
> 
> The true "cheating" scandal is the ability of ETS and other agents of the
> testing industry to sell wares which purport to predict academic success
> and in fact merely manufacture it for sale.
> 
> David Kellogg
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:10 PM, rjsp2 <r.j.s.parsons@open.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> It's all right, Peter. Cheating is a necessary life skill; this result
>> is measuring the fact that the Asians are better at it than we are,
>> hence are bound to succeed in life.
>> 
>> Now where was that irony emoticon...
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> On 13/05/2015 11:40, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
>> 
>>> And yet, here it says that cheating is rampant.
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/12/new-allegations-of-an-sat-security-breach-this-time-on-a-u-s-test/
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>>> Mocombe
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>>> Subject: [Xmca-l] Asia tops global school rankings
>>> 
>>> Asia tops global school rankings
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32608772
>>> 
>>> 
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