orichá wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 10:04 am IQ tests have been widely exploited by various groups, including the military in the U.S. for sure. IQ tests are useless because they only "work" if you happen to already fit into their narrow set of prerequisite educational criteria. But if you are not the right culture or color, lol, they have dubious value. There is no such thing as inherent intelligence. There is only what happens to you growing up...

Read this book for an eye-opening history of the extremely prejudiced and bigoted history of intelligent assessment since a long time ago... It starts with craniometry and runs up to the invention of IQ tests...

Jordan Peterson refers to this book as an "unforgivably misleading book"



the link in his post is worth a free subscription to read the article.

but yeah... seems its not the best book to counter the IQ debate with.

orichá wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:58 pm

IraHayes wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 4:42 pm

orichá wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 10:04 am IQ tests have been widely exploited by various groups, including the military in the U.S. for sure. IQ tests are useless because they only "work" if you happen to already fit into their narrow set of prerequisite educational criteria. But if you are not the right culture or color, lol, they have dubious value. There is no such thing as inherent intelligence. There is only what happens to you growing up...

Read this book for an eye-opening history of the extremely prejudiced and bigoted history of intelligent assessment since a long time ago... It starts with craniometry and runs up to the invention of IQ tests...

Jordan Peterson refers to this book as an "unforgivably misleading book"



the link in his post is worth a free subscription to read the article.

but yeah... seems its not the best book to counter the IQ debate with.

As far as I can see, anyone who thinks Gould is wrong has not understood the basic assumptions and fallacies that lead up to pretending a single number can be assigned to represent any one person's intelligence. It's a number, it has nothing to do with what intelligence really is!

I will give Jordan Peterson a pass and consign him to the heap of blind bumblers who lack even the most basic logical and philosophical skills. To defend IQ is basically the same as defending institutional inequality in all its many insidious forms. But privileged folks are usually blind to these systems for some strange reason...

“The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club,” - professor David Dunning

PM: Education Reform Makes Important Change to Cambodia
AKP Phnom Penh, February 02, 2023 --
Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HE this morning reassured that the Royal Government’s commitment to education reform had made an important change to the society as a whole.

Addressing at the get-together with 1,049 grade A students, Samdech Techo HE said the education reform had brought about behaviour change of students and their respective families and eliminated the culture of intervention.

The reform of high school exams has created social efforts, especially the students’ personal efforts plus other factors that have encouraged them to study hard instead of depending on cheating or their parents’ interventions, he explained.

“This is a big change compared to the past,” Samdech Techo Prime Minister underlined.

Besides, Samdech Techo HE alerted the gap between male and female students who have successfully passed the high school exams. According to the Premier, among the 90,950 successful students, 52,512 are female or some 78 percent.

He thus asked the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and other stakeholders to pay attention to this gap issue.
- AKP

February 16, 2023
Ministry to fill vacancies of 3,000 full-time teachers in remote areas
In an effort to reduce a severe shortage of teachers in remote areas, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) will recruit 3,000 full-time teachers.

In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry instructed the heads of educational departments in all provinces to submit their manpower requirements to the personnel department of the MoEYS before March 31.

Students of education can also apply for teaching jobs when sitting for final year examinations.

Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron noted in the statement that the vacancies include positions for lecturers and secondary, primary, kindergarten and sports teachers, as well as administrative personnel.

Pech Ratana, Director of Oddar Meanchey Provincial Department of Education, said yesterday, “I am happy that MoEYS is recruiting a large number of teachers, especially primary teachers, because our province needs 94 primary teachers, and I will send a request for them.”

He added, “We are facing a severe shortage of teachers because Oddar Meanchey province is very far from the capital and teachers are not interested to work here.”

Dr Quach Mengly, educator and Chief Executive Officer of Mengly J Quach, said yesterday that public and private educational sectors are facing an immense shortage of teachers because teachers retire each year, while the numbers of private schools and students are dramatically increasing every year.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239632/ ... ote-areas/

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 3:00 pm February 16, 2023
Ministry to fill vacancies of 3,000 full-time teachers in remote areas
In an effort to reduce a severe shortage of teachers in remote areas, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) will recruit 3,000 full-time teachers.

In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry instructed the heads of educational departments in all provinces to submit their manpower requirements to the personnel department of the MoEYS before March 31.

Students of education can also apply for teaching jobs when sitting for final year examinations.

Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron noted in the statement that the vacancies include positions for lecturers and secondary, primary, kindergarten and sports teachers, as well as administrative personnel.

Pech Ratana, Director of Oddar Meanchey Provincial Department of Education, said yesterday, “I am happy that MoEYS is recruiting a large number of teachers, especially primary teachers, because our province needs 94 primary teachers, and I will send a request for them.”

He added, “We are facing a severe shortage of teachers because Oddar Meanchey province is very far from the capital and teachers are not interested to work here.”

Dr Quach Mengly, educator and Chief Executive Officer of Mengly J Quach, said yesterday that public and private educational sectors are facing an immense shortage of teachers because teachers retire each year, while the numbers of private schools and students are dramatically increasing every year.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239632/ ... ote-areas/

It does beg one or two questions.

Firstly, 3000 teachers, but the article alludes to a proportion of that number being administrative staff. Solely administrative, or teachers with an administrative function? What proportion? How many? (Don’t ask me to qualify the difference- I’m hoping that someone more involved might have some input). But I’d hazard a guess that the recruitment might suitably the fill the admin positions before the actual teaching ones.

Secondly, over what period of time is this recruitment? It seems a little ambitious when they are already saying there is a staff shortage. Are they expecting 2-3000 teachers to be sitting awaiting the phone call? Probably not, if they are encouraging final year students to apply for teaching positions.
Is the 3000 figure to cover a shortfall? In which case, what of the thorny issue of further retirements along with a current shortfall?

Is 3000 enough?

I’ve seen the local school teachers here in a small school in the province. Actually, on the whole they seem a cut above the standard in Phnom Penh. There’s much greater interest in general discipline, and there is generally better discipline among the students. It’s not a frenzied rabble. One teacher that I spoke to actually spoke very good English. A far better standard than many of the teachers that I encountered in Westline, Suvarnabhum, etc. but she’s teaching 7-9year olds in a class of 30+ in a small town 3 hours north of Phnom Penh. She’s providing extra curricular English classes to those able to take them.