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We have been agonizing over the same issues. A related question is, how
do you convince your head-of-department to fund teaching innovations
in your department when colleagues
will not admit that their present system is lacking in any way.
After listening to Fred Goldberg extolling the virtues of pre and
post-testing for concept development, we have come to the conclusion
that ready availability of good question banks for this purpose may
help.
Then teaching staff who are doing something right can show that it gets
results, and compare the gains their students make to those of other
staff or to groups using other methods. Until faced with the usual
appalling lack of improvement on tests like these, many teaching staff
who have comfortably taught the same courses for years are so out of
touch that they do not realise that there is any problem.
Good luck with your recalcitrant professors!
Margaret Mazzolini
Swinburne University of Technology