http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2008/05/what-would-deming-say-about-the-demise-of-testing-in-education/ A wry look at all things statistical and/or scientific with an engineering perspective. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2008/05/what-would-deming-say-about-the-demise-of-testing-in-education/comment-page-1/#comment-42 curiouscat Sat, 31 May 2008 21:33:00 +0000 http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2008/05/what-would-deming-say-about-the-demise-of-testing-in-education/#comment-42 I am very confident he would approve of eliminating grades. That doesn't mean he would see any educational system that had eliminating grades as good. You could surely eliminate grade and have a very bad educational system. But he did not believe grades were a useful tool. I am very confident he would approve of eliminating grades. That doesn’t mean he would see any educational system that had eliminating grades as good. You could surely eliminate grade and have a very bad educational system. But he did not believe grades were a useful tool.

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