Re: [ossig] (Fwd) STI News: Firm discovers good IT help hard to find

[Teoh Eng Sin <teohes@streamyx.com>]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:44, Dr Molly Cheah wrote:

> Sure, but what is your purpose? Are you going to use the interpretation
> to tell parents or school children that if you score very high grades,
> you're not going to do as well as those who didn't? :)
> 
no, that would be negative serve no real purpose ...  let me paint
possible scenarios ...

0.  Survey indicates that super grade students (high number of As)
generally results in careers that are better (better pay, status etc). 
End of Story .....

1.  However,  Lets say we have a survey that initially (statistically)
points to a possibility that having super good grades doesn't
necessarily guarantee a super career (status/finanacial etc.)  The
survey if well conducted would have enough information (wrt
socio-economics, demographics etc) to show that it's results are
plausible.  The next obvious question is WHY ?

2.  The well conceived survey would have enough questions to cover the
different aspects of human "intelligence".  eg:  EQ (emotional
intelligence), social skills.   There would also be information wrt to
the students involvement in school games, debating, scouts, guides,
cadets etc.   Also included will be information about the young students
social activities outside of school.

Maybe we could have data that begins to hint at ...

a.  Does good grades generally (what %  or probability) result in better
later life career ?... 

b.  How is the above altered by those with differing EQ , social,
sporting skills... ?

Plus a hosts of other questions that generally results in active
discussions in this list everytime a question about quality of graduates
or our education systems arises.  

Having thought about this the last week (work kept me from replying
earlier) I conceded it could be a task requiring very serious skills and
research $$$.

Alas, I feel this may be the last comment as it is likely to fall into
the "too hard basket".   Oh well ,  it was worth a thought ...

rgds  

Personal Note:  I did receive a private mail from someone on the list
that I will see this issue differently if I had kids of my own.  Maybe
when I do have kids of my own,  I hope I will have the courage (and
information ) to let them know that super grades is not the holy grail
of education (and life).





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