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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] GIS Certification? |
| Date: |
06/10/2004 11:50:00 PM |
| From: |
Clive Poole |
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> Attitude over aptitude. Certification does not measure attitude.
Couldn't agree more. Taking the whole analogy to a logical absurdity how do
we start the certification process for our world's political leaders?
Perhaps this has more urgency than that for GIS specialists at present.
Have a look this link. This was work from one of our non qualifed Geospatial
scientists. Please let me know if you would not consider his skills due to
lack of certification?
http://www.directionsmag.com/remote.sensing.contest/?s=Around+the+World+in+1
80+Million+Years
Cheers
Clive
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com]On Behalf Of Carl Reed
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:17 AM
> To: Martin du Saire: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com: Michael Gould
> Subject: Re: [gislist] GIS Certification?
>
>
> Following what MG states, there is an old business adage WRT hiring -
> Attitude over aptitude. Certification does not measure attitude.
>
> Carl
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gould" <gould@lsi.uji.es>
> To: "Martin du Saire" <mdusaire@umn.edu>: <gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:30 PM
> Subject: RE: [gislist] GIS Certification?
>
>
> Good analogy. The SAT, if you dig deep, is not a good measure of future
> success....however it has been peddled on Americans as the silver bullet
> number.
>
> Go ahead, and certify everything humans do. It won't improve performance,
> 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:
> >
> >Certification per se, is not the problem. It is no different than any
> >other measure of "competency", say the SAT. The problem is when any one
> >measure, or small subset of measures is given far more weight than it
> deserves.
> >
> >Martin (Innocent bystander)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >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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