[AAACE-NLA] "Success" thresholds

[George demetrion]

Thanks Andrea,

I agree with you that the situation is sad that the condition of low-level reading ability among adults exist.  Although I am not, obviously, inside her head, from the point of view of her own first person consciousness, she may not see it that way.  And, in terms of my own observation and personal relationship with her extending back 5 years, the growth in her own emerging strengths and capacities as slowly as these changes appear, seems to have a generally positive outlook on her self-perception.  This, too, is only part of the picture, but the "soft" side when compared with DAR and CASAS scores in which their evidential nature is highly conflated by those who look to such measures as a primary source of valid information.

My own view is that all of these sources of information are indicators of what may be going on in this person's literacy development, which requires some type of synthetic evaluation (some combination of participatory and outside observer-based) that can account for the various factors as comprehensively as possible.  Stated thusly, this is an ideal, although I believe there are approaches and methods of research and theory construction that can get at this in which solid case study multiplied, compared and critically analyzed, would be a critical component.

On this, if there were to be a gold standard it would be problem oriented competent inquiry in which methodologies were determined by the needs of the inquiry situation itself rather than superimposed antecedently in such a methodological standard as experimental design.  On this interpretation, the value of experimental design (and any other methodology) would be its functional role in progressive inquiry-based problem resolution.

George
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  George,

  I've thought about what you said, and I still think that your student's position is sad.  She is an adult and she is trying to learn now what she might have learned in school. Too bad she didn't, for whatever reason or circumstance.  I feel the same way when other people have to spend a long time making up, figuring out, what should have been their's by right.

  Andrea 
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