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From: John Clement [mailto:clement@HAL-PC.ORG]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:48 PM
There has been an interesting thread on this Phys-L network
concerning the efficiency of the lecture method and other
methods of teaching. Don Simanek claims that one major
problem is that students have not learned how to listen, take
notes, and then respond.
My question about Don's claim is "How do you know that?". Anecdotal
evidence is very suspect. As one grows older your memories
actually change
and what you think was true when you were young is not a good
indicator of
what actually happened. Since using some standard tests has
only recently
been a feature of physics education, we have little
comparable data from
earlier times. We do not have direct evidence if the lecture
system is less
effective now or if it has always been equally ineffective.