Comments on: Measuring the things universities say they want students to learn https://www.isegoria.net/2012/02/measuring-the-things-universities-say-they-want-students-to-learn/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Eric Crampton https://www.isegoria.net/2012/02/measuring-the-things-universities-say-they-want-students-to-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-434958 Eric Crampton Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:56:49 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=28286#comment-434958 I’ll take the critique, but I’d really love to see some finer-grained detail. G is a pretty hard constraint, and the bottom tier of incoming students probably isn’t capable of being taught what they’d need to improve outcomes on those kinds of tests without too great a degradation in the educational experience of their classmates.

If the book shows no learning across all SAT deciles for incoming students, that would be damning indeed. But if the bottom third or so isn’t learning anything, that doesn’t really much surprise me.

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