Dear Jim,
I did a search for 'Orme School' and found Dennis' address to be:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I must say that I miss Dennis' comments on this list.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
CAMS - Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist
- United States Metric Association
ASM - Accredited Speaking Member
- National Speakers Association of Australia
Member, International Federation for Professional Speakers
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on 2001/12/18 08.23, Jim Elwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On a lighter note than the ongoing debate:
>
> (1) If you have a PDF file of the set of metric flashcards I created, there
> are two errors that need to be corrected. First, the Celsius to Kelvin card
> is wrong (should be oC +273.15 --> K). Second, the card that says "estimate
> the mass of a nickel," should be "nickel: 5 g" on the back.
>
> (2) I had nine technical employees (engineers and technicians) take an
> "in-house" version of the CAMS test last week. Seven of nine failed. Some
> comments:
>
> (a) It was a test I created, so I could be confident they would pass before
> they applied to the USMA for the real CAMS test. I think it is a
> substantially more difficult test, in part because it is not all multiple
> choice (half the questions require rewriting something correcting the errors).
>
> (b) It was entirely self-study (using Dennis Brownridge's book and my
> flashcards).
>
> (c) The main problem was that the engineers seemed to think they already
> knew enough metric, so most did not really study much, and were really weak
> in the style area.
>
> (d) The two who studied hard did well: 92% and 88%.
>
>
> So I now have some more humble engineers, and will test them again (after a
> class-type review) in January. Hopefully by end of the first quarter we'll
> have a whole bunch of CAMS people at the company.
>
> Jim Elwell (CAMS)
>
> P.S. We found an error in Dennis' book that is not in his errata. Does
> anyone have an email address for him? I used to have it but cannot find it.
>
