The “Immeasurable†Part 2
Will Richardson,
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Aug 05, 2012
This is the second part (first part here) of a post written on the subject of immeasurable aspects of an education. In this post, Will Richardson graphs various traits - creativity, networking, entrepreneurial thinking - according to their importance and difficulty to measure. The graph, though, is entirely subjective - there are no units, nor any hint of what would be a unit (perhaps Richardson is just being ironic, given the topic of this post - but perhaps not). And the items listed are not all things that ought to be candidates for assessment at all. Will I grant that the most important elements of an education are also the hardest to measure? No, I don't think so - some things that are really important (the student made it through the day without being killed) are pretty easy to measure, while some pretty insignificant things (the student is sensitive to the feelings of plants in the next room) are impossible to measure. But it's still worth talking about.
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