“Dear Margaret
Thank you for contacting us! We suggest not focussing on the number of points gained in exercises as this is not an accurate way to assess your progress. As long as you are steadily progressing, this is a positive thing.
Note – there is less room for improvement in Sound Replay and Listen and Do, which is why it appears as though you are progressing slowly. If you start out recalling 4 sounds in sequence and then jump to 5, this is a big improvement in terms of the task itself, but will reflect as a minor improvement on the progress screens.
Keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Andrea Duff”
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- “We suggest not focussing on the number of points gained in exercises as this is not an accurate way to assess your progress.” That is re-a-lly strange. Why make such a big deal of numbers and bells (like the pokies!), and daily and cumulative totals in the results of every exercise if it is not an accurate way to assess progress? Is it not direct feedback of progress?
- “Note – there is less room for improvement in Sound Replay and Listen and Do, which is why it appears as though you are progressing slowly”. AHA! It is the nature of the task! AND the working memory bottleneck!! “To go from 4 to 5 is a big improvement, but will reflect as a minor improvement on the progress screens.” Is my working memory trainable with prolonged practice…. ?
“Seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken“. Jane Austen, Emma
Let’s look at “The Magic Number Seven”…..
” B.F.A. Editor note: ‘The Magic Number Seven will appear on Monday 18 January 2010. “
