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CSCOPE didnt crash, and hasnt burned. The exemplar lessons got
removed, that was it and the product is still licensed at the same
price.

No admins are cringing.

Its already been renamed.

It had a lot of work into design and implementation, but the focus
was maximising revenue and minimizing cost.

On 6/15/14, I am on team AW wrote:
> Now that CScope has crashed and burned, and administrators
> feel the cringe factor whenever they talk about it, they are
> scrambling to rename it. It was a red hot mess. It had no
> mystical inherent design. It was a bunch of junk lessons
> thrown together to make money, and now it is a bunch of junk
> lessons thrown away. The only problem is that the fat cats at
> the service centers have to figure out a way to convince
> legislators that they are still relevant.
>
>
>
> On 6/15/14, AW -- I don't think so wrote:
>> 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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