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I do find it odd that teachers would rather be judged based on one or two people observing their classroom and ignoring actual student output, rather than raw n
by streptomycin 14y ago
I do find it odd that teachers would rather be judged based on one or two people observing their classroom and ignoring actual student output, rather than raw numbers.
As a developer I'd much rather be evaluated on some metric I could optimize for (I think some metric measuring feature value/bugs/fix rate/etc...), rather than just my manager watching me code/debug a couple of times per month.
Okay, I really don't understand this mindset. You'd really prefer it is, say, 1/3 of your salary was determined by the number of lines of code you wrote? Or the number of bugs you closed? Or some equally inane metric that only loosely correlates with your actual performance and can be easily gamed?
What am I missing?
- yummyfajitas 14y agoYou'd really prefer it is, say, 1/3 of your salary was determined by the number of lines of code you wrote? I was a quant trader for a while. A considerable chunk of my salary was determined by profit, hardly unreasonable. Measuring developers in other areas is difficult because of heterogeneous goals - last year I built a search engine, this year I'm statistically tracking user behavior. Hard to compare one to the other. Education does not suffer this problem - last year a teacher taught 30 kids to read. This year she taught 28 kids to read. The goal is always maximizing the fraction of kids who can read.
- streptomycin 14y agoI don't think it's obvious that these teaching metrics correlate better with teaching ability than LOC would correlate with programming ability. I'd expect weak correlations in both cases. I'm just speculating at this point, though.