The Secret Problem With That Testing Column

[FBaggins]

1. That was my conclusion. It's embarrassing that someone without an education...

...can end up on a school board. Let alone get graduate degrees in education and education psychology. Isn't that later degree an MS with a math requirement? Certainly statistics, no? I'm guessing that there should be at least three courses measurement/statistics.

He reportedly guessed on all 61 math questions and confesses that he didn't know how to do any of them (a fact which is confirmed by the fact that he did worse than would be expected from just random selection).

There may be a problem with this test, but all we know from this exercise is that this guy doesn't belong anywhere near the education system. His nonsense about how nobody uses that math in the real world is excusable ignorance in the 4th grade student who doesn't want to learn fractions... it's inexcusable here.

He has trained over 18,000 educators in classroom management and course delivery skills in six eastern states over the last 25 years.”

The good news is that it's possible that these statistics are self-reported. It may have only been 12 educators in three states last summer and he just multiplied it wrong.