Chronology | Current Month | Current Thread | Current Date |
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] | [Date Index] [Thread Index] | [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] | [Date Prev] [Date Next] |
On 12/17/2013 4:39 PM, Ze'ev Wurman wrote:
And remember what started this thread. It is NOT ABOUT SOLVING THE
PROBLEM, IT IS ABOUT THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF THE PROBLEM.
Taking that to heart, I wonder if these tests are worth giving. If the
goal is to do a service to students who sign up but with little chance
of earning a c or better, I suspect that there is a lot of information
available with more predictive power: grades in previous science
classes, high school gpa, even math SAT score might do a better job than
what has been proposed so far. But to find out, you would have to check
the data.
But I am not sure that is our role to make these predictions. If a
student has a destination in mind and physics is one of the requirements
along the way, then despite what my (admittedly fuzzy) prediction model
would say, my first instinct is to say come on in and be prepared to
work hard.
_______________________________________________
Forum for Physics Educators
Phys-l@phys-l.org
http://www.phys-l.org/mailman/listinfo/phys-l