[AAACE-NLA] Delusion of Accountability in Adult Education (longer)

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Colleagues,

"We can't afford to fund progrms with uncertain or invisible success."--thanks, Robin.

We need to be able to make a  solid case for funding, the money is tight, we have to  know we are  on firm ground, and I don't think we are, going by Tom's email.  The data aren't comparable (not  even close to scientific), the report is a mess. 

About  students as clients-- I betray my life long bias--students are students and teachers are teachers. This means that what the student accomplishes--however measured--is a function of the teacher's teaching and the student's learning.  A  score represents the effort of two people at a minimum.

(You can see that this ties inevitably into teacher  credentials and training, of course teachers representing both the profession and volunteers.)

Yardicks, benchmarks, we  have to have them.

Situated learning generalizes--one literacy domain doesn't exist all by itself, that's  why we can use benchmarks across cases.

Andrea