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Re: data on typical FCI scores



At 20:55 1/5/00 -0800, Richard Hake wrote:
... my survey(1-3) of FCI(4)
and Mechanics Diagnostic(5) ...
indicates that:
...
the average effectiveness of a course in promoting conceptual
understanding is taken to be the average normalized gain <g>. The
latter is defined as the ratio of the actual average gain (%<post> -
%<pre>) to the maximum possible average gain (100 - %<pre>)....

(b) Traditional (T) courses ... average <g> for 14
courses (N = 2048) of 0.23 ± 0.04sd
...
(c) Interactive-engagement (IE) ... average <g> = 0.48 ± 0.14sd.

(d) Current IE methods need to be improved, since none of the IE
courses achieves <g> greater than 0.69.

Richard Hake

I don't understand para (d) in the context of
para (c) is better than (b)

Can anyone explain why the IE method, shown to be better,
is in need of improvement?

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK