You are giving way too much credit to the designers of cscope.
(IMHO) It was a way to make money and sell a project -- with
lessons thrown together or stolen over the internet. There was not
that much thought put into the whole mess.
On 6/14/14, PsyGuy wrote:
> There is no contradiction, the mean does not equal the point of
> pass/fail. The average means, the arithmetic mean. CSCOPE was
> designed for average students, defined as those +- 1 SD of the
> mean. From a practical standpoint, the idea was focused on those
> students who were very very close to passing, and get them across
> the goal.
>
> On 6/14/14, Hey Miss wrote:
>> Average may be defined as one SD from the mean, but you didn't
>> originally say "average". You said "average who aren't passing".
>> So would that be one SD below the mean, or 34%? (You have a
>> habit of contradicting yourself to stand by an argument.)
>>
>> On 6/12/14, PsyGuy wrote:
>>> The development protocols are not public information.
>>>
>>> Understand that average is defined as plus and minus one
>>> standard deviation of the mean. That's about 68% of the
>>> student population within any particular demographic.
>>>
>>> On 6/12/14, hmm responding wrote:
>>>> Please give links to these developmental documents.
>>>>
>>>> As to the comment about cscope being for average
>>> students
>>>> who are failing, I would just like to say that my
>>>> classroom (like all classrooms) has a variety of levels
>>>> from high achievers to very low SPED students.
>>> Therefore,
>>>> the passing rate was for all the various levels. I even
>>>> had a SPED student to achieve a level 3 score.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is interesting to say that cscope is meant for average
>>>> failing students when most classrooms have various
>>> levels
>>>> of abilities. Cscope was shoved down our throats as the
>>>> one size fits all that must be used.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, yeah, I know psychoguy will have a comment to add
>>>> since he is such a brilliant person who is omniscient in
>>>> all areas.
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