[Phys-L] Re: Human Error?

[SSHS KPHOX <kphox@CHERRYCREEKSCHOOLS.ORG>]

Forum for Physics Educators <PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu> on Friday, April
29, 2005 at 10:13 AM -0700 wrote:
> How did reporting "human
> error" as a source of error become so prevalent?  Do any of you want to
> defend it as a reasonable thing to write on a lab report (or in a
> publication)?

It must be in middle school because they do it in HS and none of my
colleagues will "fess up" to teaching or tolerating it. :-)

I try, mostly in vain, to have my students detail what specific part of
their inherent erroneousness are they talking about? "So what specifically
did you do wrong this time?"

I feel you pain and frustration.

Ken Fox
Science Department Coordinator
IB Physics Teacher
Smoky Hill High School
Aurora, CO
kfox@cherrycreekschools.org
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