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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] GIS Certification? |
| Date: |
06/10/2004 01:35:01 PM |
| From: |
Michael Gould |
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Good analogy. The SAT, if you dig deep, is not a good measure of future=20
success....however it has been peddled on Americans as the silver bullet=20
number.
Go ahead, and certify everything humans do. It won't improve performance,=20
behavior, pragmatism.
Control freaks.
MG
At 19:11 10/06/2004, Martin du Saire wrote:
>Not being a GIS professional take my opinion as a grain of salt:
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>Certification per se, is not the problem. It is no different than any=20
>other measure of "competency", say the SAT. The problem is when any one=20
>measure, or small subset of measures is given far more weight than it=
deserves.
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>Martin (Innocent bystander)
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>At 11:33 AM 6/10/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>I have visited. I've been following this since early rumblings of it at
>>URISA surfaced with Dr. Huxhold, and I was actually an early support of=
it.
>>Reality and experience changed all that. I see numbers things to download
>>on the site, but what I don't see is examples of this "portfolio"
>>measurement process, or the criteria used to compare one person's
>>"portfolio" vs. the next person to apply. You'll no doubt see where I am
>
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Michael Gould
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(Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos)
Universitat Jaume I
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