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A question about the below Miranda/Joey exercise that you
used as an example.
In the reflection section I am quite bothered by the "final
note" section where the authors tell the students what the
correct answer is for their own self-reflection!
"In this context, using algebra was not the easiest."
This strikes me as reinforcing a memorize "the correct
answer" mode of thought amongst students. And goes against
the idea of self-reflection being a personal view based on
one's own personal experience. Just curious about your
opinion regarding this minor point.
Incidently, I consider this exercise to be a problem and not
a conceptual question. Or at least it is a reasonable
example of what I was referring to in a previous post about
the use of well written problems also testing for concepts as
well as problem solving ability. (in particular, in that
post I suspect that a lot of the denigration of problems are
really straw-man type arguments, based upon poorly written problems.)