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ERIC abstract.
ED041780
This report presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study
designed to compare the achievement in beginning college physics of
completing PSSC high school physics with students completing atraditional
high school physics course. Factors of ability and achievement were heldphysics
constant while scores on the criterion of marks in beginning college
were compared. Mean achievement in college physics for students with atook
background in PSSC physics was not significantly different from that of
students who had traditional physics. However, there were significant
differences in the mean achievement between (1) students who took PSSC
physics and who did not take high school physics, and (2) students who
traditional physics and those who did not take high school physics. Thein
investigator suggests that his findings indicate that chances of success
college physics would be improved by taking physics in high school. (LC)college
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Notice the conclusion was that PSSC did not improve achievement in
physics. Actually the PSSC textbook is fairly conventional compared toAw shucks! This seems to confirm that blue riband instigators, and lofty
books like Minds on Physics.
John M. Clement
Houston, TX
ambitions are not enough to allow an didactic work to succeed where it
counts.
Only experimental examinations confirm that promise. And how many PSSC
style initiatives can the World undertake to provide a useful
statistical population?
Reminds me of those other college level blue riband physics books often
mentioned here
which seemed to suffer a similar fate.