Converging to get to the level of skills is a new age concept for Skill Evaluation, and in this article I will try and elucidate the science behind wood working and the art of convergence which is the basic premise of the Science behind Skill Evaluation in Education. A science is supposed to be rational and logical while convergence on the other hand could be mighty intuitive and a sublime form of human expression. Woodworking at its best is the divine form of prayer and worship. Joseph, the father of Jesus Christ, was a woodworker, and wood working can bring peace and stability in life. The architecture of all the temples in ancient times, has been told in the Bible to be a result of careful calculations. Woodworking therefore is essentially careful calculations and convergence, a well thought out planned process.
A science is a carefully analyzed subject matter keeping into consideration the various theories that depict the evolution of the body of knowledge of the subject matter. In consideration to this, science is seen to be the validation of the physical and natural world around us.
Science is the world as seen through human evaluation. When we speak of the science behind woodworking we refer to the various joints, joinery in particular is of interest to us, teams are nothing but parts joined together, whereas the various parts are the individuals. The Dovetail method of Skill Evaluation is a science which is buttressed around the real world skill of woodworking.
We come to the conclusion from the above that dovetail joints can be seen as a medium to effectively evaluate skills and the Science behind Skill Evaluation in Education. How it came to be is a matter of objective debate and I will get into it sooner than later in this article. The debate is one of competition with the older method of evaluation that is built around exams and testing, and peer reviews. When we conduct Skill evaluation of a mind economy skill, software coding with another mind tool, namely exams and testing, we are letting the devil walk right into the process. The “devil” is a term I use for errors that creep into the process of evaluation due to lack of due diligence to the real world. The real world needs a depiction of the software skill that can be physical and natural. Can a software depict a bridge, then and then only is the evaluation complete. If the software skills that converged to the bridge caused it to fall down, then the disaster can be wholly and solely blamed on the construction, logic and the imparted coding of the software.
These are unusual words and to understand them, I take you back to my engineering at the grad school, I was an Electronics and Communication engineer in 1992 but didn’t completely understand the subject, it was brisk with thoughts of electrons and protons, and the neutrons, PNP and NPN semi-conductors, transistors and diodes made up the curriculum. It was theory and the kind that took time to understand and at my first job at an electrical and electronics company, I thought I would work out the theory and translate it into practical knowledge. Of course it didn’t happen the way I thought it would, and I trudged along with my degree seeking maman. Greed is the reason behind why the world is the way it is. It all fell into place for me in 2014 when I turned to mechanical engineering and started making dovetail joints,
and a great realization dawned on me that this was a real world skill based on careful calculations. It is essential to realize that this insight was not one of Convergence, which is really seeing the level of a skill through a real world skill like woodworking. This insight followed instead, from my Engineering days and I became a better Engineer, not necessarily a better Electronics engineer. Too much of specialization is a human thought, I have nothing against it, and it quells the fire of hell that burns when you don’t know what you should know. Here I was, knowing what I didn’t know and working out Dovetail joints of all kinds:
I must have been half-blind not to see this earlier, puns intended, but I decided later in 2019 that I would use Through Dovetail for evaluating skills. Convergence had already appeared in my life and the landscape was Human Resources Development. Convergence, as I mentioned earlier, means to focus slowly and gradually, sometimes quickly, on a device, method or location, based upon our logical facility. Nothing is as intuitive as it can be, it’s pure logic. In one of my previous posts I have spoken of a broad vision that is useful to sustain oneself when one gets older.
Converging skills to woodworking means to see the level of expertise in that software skill, for example, on wood. As the software worker works, I begin to work on wood, closely co-relating, permutating and sometimes combining thoughts so that the skill can be evaluated on wood. I have 10 parameters that are converged. To give you an example, the baseline skill of the software worker is what is referred to as the wall in woodworking. This was the concept in its early stages, to work together was the paradigm, later this came out to be a premium form of Skill evaluation and to scale it down to the common masses who could ill afford to pay for the premium product, we developed the Standard product that uses a CV or Resume to converge skills on to woodworking.
As mentioned in one of my previous posts, the Standard form of Skill evaluation uses Hints and Cues to find the skill level. Hints and Cues are the basic premise of the standard skill evaluation and it takes time to mark them on the CV. Finally it is a question of rating each Cue and Hint on a scale of 1-5, and this causes the generation of a cumulative Skill evaluation total. In conclusion, and I must write this, the results are 100% accurate.