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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 23:20:52 -0500
Reply-to: phys-l@mailer.uwf.edu
From: Jerome Epstein <jerepst@worldnet.att.net>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
Subject: Re: Reality
As a newcomer to this Board, forgive my bluntness.Gang:
Most of what I see shows again that most of our
colleagues, including most with a serious concern for good
science education, really have little knowledge of how
deep this problem goes.
As some extensive diagnostic testing I have done in recent
years clearly shows, there are at your (any) institution a
great many students who lost all comprehension of
mathematics and basic quantitative reasoning in the fourth
grade; there are probably many more than you think, and I
can prove it. Trying to deal with this issue through
"remedial algebra" or "science literacy" will not make a
dent in this problem, as has been shown over and over
again. Until a serious approach to the REAL problem is
mounted, there will not be any serious improvement, at
least for the lower half to two-thirds of our students.
Before I came on this Board, Richard Hake kindly referred
to some of my recent work. Readers should feel free to
inquire for further information on the diagnostic testing
and/or for information on a comprehensive program to
attempt to deal with reality (or see JCST, December 1997).
J. Epstein