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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] GIS Certification? |
| Date: |
06/10/2004 04:30:01 PM |
| From: |
Margaret Gooding |
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I personally cannot afford the money to get certified (not that I would=20
anyway). No one has talked about the cost - seems like it is just a good=20
way for someone to make some money. There are so many different=20
applications and fields in the GIS world - someone who is good in one area=
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won't necessarily be good in another. How will you tackle these=20
differences? I am very good at making maps, manipulating data, etc. but=20
cannot program...
At 11:30 AM 6/10/2004, Michael Gould wrote:
>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.
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>Go ahead, and certify everything humans do. It won't improve performance,=
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>behavior, pragmatism.
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>Control freaks.
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>MG
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> At 19:11 10/06/2004, Martin du Saire wrote:
>>Not being a GIS professional take my opinion as a grain of salt:
>>
>>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=
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>>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
>Dept. Information Systems
>(Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos)
>Universitat Jaume I
>E-12071 Castell=F3n, Spain
>mailto:gould@lsi.uji.es
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