Serendipity

SERENDIPITY - really came through to crystallize my thoughts toward the eventual zone scoring system for level 7 students.

Ever notice how when we need a new person to talk with that understands, that providence (fate?!) always brings the proper person to us. I received a psychological promotion today by validating my ideas with a peer from another world - who knew how to complement the exchange with more creativity rather than bringing it down with negativity.

My goal is to build a reality where each person retains ownership through stewardship - building a world that cannot fail for its active participants. Forging cooperative competitions and win/win partnerships will benefit the community via the creation of jobs in novel endeavors, once the verticle chains of the current politcal system are demolished. Until then, knowledge for personal benefit seems more valuable in the long run than classes for credit. The latter might get you a job, the former gains a you a profession.

Finding a proper mentor that builds upon the natural creativity of the individual is what inspires learning. Creating the proper environment that is common to the goals but supportive of the individual requires an evaluation system based on accurate measurement. Basing learning on research is a natural for math and science.

Finding the proper proxies to measure the metrix that everybody must achieve for demonstrative success and then measuring them at their optimal value relative to the task rather than subjective to the testing authority is a difficult task. Keeping out the bias is done by scoring on performance based criteria - well defined, common across topic matter, and readily given to some primary or simply calculated secondary relative score. By using research protocols as the learning basis, the quality assurance criteria becomes the optimum standard of performance.

Individual scores would be ranked catagorically and the sum of the individual scores becomes the total performance measure. Once the system is established, both roles and zones will have their own sets of metrix. The 10 x 12 matrix should have 20 different catagories, with only 10 randomly in play at a time. By having this chaotic component - students must really do the work to gain the score - because the standard shortcut of having previous tests is preempted by the different testing criteria from league to league.