Re: [Phys-l] the twistorical approach

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

Yes it is: The influence of an historically oriented course on students'
content knowledge in optics evaluated by means of facets-schemes analysis
Igal Galili and Amnon Hazan 
Science Teaching Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
91904, Israel.

Of course they used specially selected historical material.  Unfortunately
my memory was not as accurate as I thought.  I remembered the concept, and
not the actual location.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


> John Clement wrote, in part:
> "But there is evidence that when the historical approach is used, the
> students can gain a higher level of understanding.  There was a paper in
> AJP where a class in Australia did this.  As I recall the subject was
> optics.  It is very clear that the standard presentation does not work
> extremely well, and that there are other research based methods that
> work much better.  There are few papers on the efficacy of a historical
> approach, but the one mentioned is significant."
>
> I wish that John would cite references.
>
> Is he talking about Galili & Hazan (2000)? They were at the Hebrew
> University of Jerusalem, not Australia.
>
> Daniel Crowe
> Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
> Ardmore Regional Center
> dcrowe@sotc.org
>
> Reference:
> Galili, Igal & Amnon Hazan (2000) "The influence of an historically
> oriented course on students' content knowledge in optics evaluated by
> means of facets-schemes analysis" AJP 68(7)S3-S15.
> [Note: This is in the PER supplement to the July issue.]
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