I’m not sure I trust The Case Against Education. I had once heard a review of it mention how the book debunked the notion that education teaches thinking skills. This interested me as I was trying to understand some things about how psychometrics works, so I skipped to that part of the book and looked at his references.
However, it turned out that the references were unconvincing. For instance, one of the main arguments was based on a small, old study that used an ad-hoc test of critical thinking skills. It was unclear to me how good that test was, and the study did not give any of the usual measures of goodness like internal reliability.
I’m not sure I trust The Case Against Education. I had once heard a review of it mention how the book debunked the notion that education teaches thinking skills. This interested me as I was trying to understand some things about how psychometrics works, so I skipped to that part of the book and looked at his references.
However, it turned out that the references were unconvincing. For instance, one of the main arguments was based on a small, old study that used an ad-hoc test of critical thinking skills. It was unclear to me how good that test was, and the study did not give any of the usual measures of goodness like internal reliability.