Apples and oranges

Analysis of Academic Expertise
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This journal article is interesting in discussing issues of Academic Expertise: Backmore, P. (2000). Some problems in the analsyis of academic expertise. Teacher Development. 4(1), 45-63.

This article doesn’t really say much. It basically says that if you measure different things, you get a different result. I agree that it is difficult to analyse ‘what is in an academic’s expertise’. Do we ever really need an analysis that is apart from a reason? It says to keep the purpose in mind. Why else would you be doing the analysis? If we did it for AUQA or for restructuring, of course we’d get different accounts. That’s fine! If I say the colour of the shirt is navy blue, and you say it is dark blue, does it really matter? Yes, if you are wanting to reproduce it, so you would probably get a spectrometer and measure the wavelength. If you are just talking about the person in the dark blue shirt as opposed to the person in the light blue shirt, hmm, no. Apples for apple sauce, oranges for marmelade.