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> This problem isn't a teaching problem. Evaluating someone's skills in any respect or context is basically an intractable problem. You're not engaging with au
by jessriedel 5y ago
> This problem isn't a teaching problem. Evaluating someone's skills in any respect or context is basically an intractable problem.
You're not engaging with author's argument. The author explicitly assumes for the sake of argument that perfect evaluation is possible. He's saying that even under this unrealistic assumption, teacher policies that naively look draconian are in fact hard to avoid given reasonable teacher effort.
- endisneigh 5y agoThat wasn’t my read. Ultimately the issues described are political. The author says as much when describing the “structural forces” and that systems with humans behave is funny ways.
- jessriedel 5y agoThat two things both involve politics does not, by itself, imply they cannot be usefully discussed separately. You need to actually argue that the issues the author discusses go away or become moot given the imperfection of real-world evaluation. It is not enough to argue that the world would look different were perfect evaluation possible.