Re: [Phys-l] implied standards

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

On 04/09/2011 12:34 PM, Boyd Weiger wrote:
> So if I use standards-based grading, and a student is unable to meet the 
> standard due to lack of algebra skills, am I assessing the standard or 
> am I assessing the algebra skills?

Both.  Don't worry about it.

Some things appear in the standards expressly;  others are implied.

The implied requirements are no less real than the expressed requirements.

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By way of analogy, in US constitutional law, there are expressed powers
and implied powers.  The government has the expressed power to establish
post offices (Article I section 8).  It has the implied power to print
postage stamps, even though stamps are not expressly mentioned anywhere in 
the constitution.  There are some folks who make a point of not understanding
this point.  Evidently they never got as far as reading the last line of
section 8.

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Einstein said "An education is what remains after you have forgotten
everything you learned in school."

As I understand it, that is a way of saying that the implied stuff is 
actually more important than the expressed stuff.  For more on this, see
  http://www.av8n.com/physics/thinking.htm