It’s often asserted that some things can’t be measured. But how true is this? And if we can’t measure something, should we stop pretending we can teach or develop it?
Can creativity be measured? What about resilience? Can we measure problem solving? What about ethical reasoning?
We take for granted the measurement of variables such as length, weight and temperature, but it is worth remembering that these variables and their measurement were human inventions. Albert Einstein made this point in the Evolution of Physics when he observed that ‘physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world’.
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Kim Flintoff
onto Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining, Adaptive Learning January 17, 2018 5:13 PM
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