Some subscribers to Phys-L might be interested in discussion-list
post "The 'Teacher Effect' - Response to Hansen #4" [Hake (2011c)].
The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: In my post "Re: 'The 'Teacher Effect' - Response to Hansen
#2" <http://bit.ly/eh6sge>, I suggested over 30 references that might
have helped to alleviate his near zero knowledge of physics education
research. In his response <http://bit.ly/fjJAdl> Hansen demonstrated
that he had either not bothered to read or had not understood the
recommended references. In this post I give six excerpts quoted from
Hansen's (2011) reply, along with my responses to the nonsensical
assertions Hansen makes in each of those excerpts.
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If you try to introduce people. . . . .[[such as Hansen]]. . . to a
paradigm shift, they will hear what you have to say and then
interpret your words in terms of their old paradigm. What does not
fit, they will not hear."
Myron Tribus (2001)
"Physics educators have led the way in developing and using objective
tests to compare student learning gains in different types of
courses, and chemists, biologists, and others are now developing
similar instruments. These tests provide convincing evidence that
students assimilate new knowledge more effectively in courses
including active, inquiry-based, and collaborative learning, assisted
by information technology, than in traditional courses."
Wood & Gentile (2003)
"There is substantial evidence that scientific teaching in the
sciences, i.e., teaching that employs instructional strategies that
encourage undergraduates to become actively engaged in their own
learning, can produce levels of understanding, retention and transfer
of knowledge that are greater than those resulting from traditional
lecture/lab classes. But widespread acceptance by university faculty
of new pedagogies and curricular materials still lies in the future.
. . . . We conclude that widespread promotion and adoption of the
elements of scientific teaching by university science departments
could have profound effects in promoting a scientifically literate
society and a reinvigorated research enterprise."
Robert DeHaan (2005)
REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on
22 April 2011.]
DeHaan, R.L. 2005. "The Impending Revolution in Undergraduate Science
Education," Journal of Science Education and Technology 14(2):
253-269; the abstract and first page are online at
<http://bit.ly/cqIK1w>.
Hake, R.R. 2011a. "Is the 'Teacher Effect' the Dominant Factor in
Students' Academic Gain?" online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at
<http://bit.ly/g6UWUZ>. Post of 7 Apr 2011 17:51:59-0700 to AERA-L
and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post were
transmitted to various discussion lists and are also on my blog
"Hake'sEdStuff" at <http://bit.ly/ifvkSz>.
Hake, R.R. 2011b. "The 'Teacher Effect' - Response to Hansen #2,"
online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/eh6sge>. Post
of 16 Apr 2011 13:43:41 -0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract
and link to the complete post were transmitted to various discussion
lists and are also on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at
<http://bit.ly/efQg1g>.
Hake, R.R. 2011c. "The 'Teacher Effect' - Response to Hansen #4,"
online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/hBhrJw>. Post
of 22 Apr 2011 14:11:15-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and
link to the complete post are being transmitted to various discussion
lists and are also on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at
<http://bit.ly/f2wH9v>.
Hansen, R. 2011. "Re: 'The 'Teacher Effect' - Response to Hansen #2"
online on the OPEN! Math-Teach archives at <http://bit.ly/fjJAdl>.
Post of April 17 to Math-Teach & Math-Learn.
Wood, W.B., & J.M. Gentile. 2003. "Teaching in a research context,"
Science 302: 1510; 28 November; online to subscribers at
<http://bit.ly/9izfFz>. A summary is online to all at
<http://bit.ly/9qGR6m>.
Tribus, M. 2001. "Quality in Education According to the Teachings of
Deming and Feuerstein," online as a 78 kB pdf at
<http://bit.ly/hwcbjn>. A Wikipedia entry on Myron Tribus is at
<http://bit.ly/g5uGEk>.