> Michael Smith wrote:
> >> Is it pernicious to claim that learning can be measured?
> >>
> > Not so much pernicious as ridiculous, unless you're
> > talking about rats in a maze.
> Really? We can't discern whether one person has learned more than
> another about anything?
The original question was about measuring; the more recent question is about ranking. Not quite the same thing.
In a broad-brush way, the ranking is doable -- more for some subjects than others, of course, and highly subjective and error-prone, but still doable.
But why do we want to do it?
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