Teaching to the Steriods Test

Is it wrong for kids to seek every advantage possible in the College Entrance exams? Does this allow for the rich to get richer and the poor to remain poor? Are SAT prep courses the academic equivalent of steroids in sports? Provoking questions that I want to explore as time and contemplation with willing folks [...]

Standard Deviations

First, read this article. Then let’s talk about it for a few minutes.
Let me see if I get this all into my head correctly. We are going to come up with some tests that determine how one student compares with all others in his “grade.” We will pose to the student a series of questions [...]

Peevish about Percentiles

I just love the mentality ol’ Gilbert Highet states in his work, The Art of Teaching. He explains his title by stating,
“I believe that teaching is an art, not a science. It seems to me very dangerous to apply the aims and methods of science to human beings as individuals, although a statistical principle can [...]