Re: Ten Learning Principles - Worthwhile or Not?

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

Well.  I'm disappointed too, because of my liking for Wm. Zinsser, viz.
"Writing To Learn."  Ch. 2 is "Writing Across the Curriculum"!!!!!

Comment please.

bc


P.s. I remember the theory (inter alia) is that writing (well) requires
logical and ordered thought -- that can't hurt in the sciences.


Larry Smith wrote:

> At 12:24 AM -0600 1/30/02, Jack Uretsky wrote:
> > Hi all-
> >        There is a glaring difference between the educational research
> > and the physics research the I have seen.  The educational exeriments seem

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> At 10:11 AM -0500 1/30/02, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
> > I believe that it was Confucius who once said that
> > "All education experiments are doomed to success".

> Well, my dissertation was about writing across the curriculum--specifically
> writing in physics classes _to help students learn physics_.  The
> educational theories all said it should work (i.e. writing about physics
> should help students learn physics).  My dissertation committee, made up
> mostly of education professors, was not at all happy about the negative
> results I obtained (the negative results were even contrary to my own
> personal expectations).
>
> Yes, there are too many variables to control for in educational research
> and there are plenty of possible explanations for my negative results; but

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> tional experiment).
>
> Larry