tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post615779980997888950..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Breaking News: U.S. millennials post ‘abysmal’ scores in tech skills test, lag behind foreign peers. From WashPo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-73443517850234891632015-03-08T14:47:22.766-04:002015-03-08T14:47:22.766-04:00I'm not surprised at this.
When I was a young...I'm not surprised at this.<br /><br />When I was a young boy, I would take things apart out of sheer curiosity. You name it, chances are I've disassembled it: radios, motors, watches, just about anything simply to see what was inside and, maybe, figure out how it worked. Doing so required the use of hand tools, which I borrowed from my father, a journeyman tradesman.<br /><br />Later, Quarter Wave Verticalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173446011323023116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-87179297509136013882015-03-07T23:34:23.087-05:002015-03-07T23:34:23.087-05:00I had many of the same thoughts as R and/or G. The...I had many of the same thoughts as R and/or G. The U.S. results are not much lower than the mean, and are well above the "failure" cutoff, if that's what the horizontal line at 200 means. And the questions are disturbingly easy, though I made the same math mistake. <br /><br />It's a Henny Penny article. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-79348948833924480012015-03-07T14:23:41.752-05:002015-03-07T14:23:41.752-05:00Like others above, I'm just a bit skeptical, a...Like others above, I'm just a bit skeptical, and inclined to consider the source (I don't think ETS has quite as large an economic stake in curriculum-creation as, say, Pearson, but they do certainly have a stake in claiming a need for more and better tests -- diagnostic, summative, and everywhere in between). I'm also, as I think I've said before in the last week, not fond of Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-33870213794278078602015-03-07T08:08:05.976-05:002015-03-07T08:08:05.976-05:00For all that there are problems in education, this...For all that there are problems in education, this study this particular study doesn't seem like it's worth setting my hair on fire over. The US is running about ten points behind the Average on literacy and problem solving, and about 20 points behind on numeracy. These are out of 500.<br /><br />Below average to be sure, but doesn't seem to be a huge lag. The range (10th-90th Rosencrantz Andor Guildensternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095512139776536635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-55380994608519988912015-03-07T03:19:35.149-05:002015-03-07T03:19:35.149-05:00I KNEW IT!!!!! It's nothing new. Wasn't th...I KNEW IT!!!!! It's nothing new. Wasn't the Commodore 64 advertised by showing a supposed employer interviewing a kid by saying, "You've zapped eleventy zillion aliens from the planet, ahem, Mongo, but what do you know about computers?" If anything, things have become much worse since then. They do spend huge amounts of time glued to their electronics, but it doesn't Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.com