Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

[Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>]

Herb, who was it who said something like "If I cold remember the names of
all the various particles, I would have been a botanist."

Jim

> On the other hand .......
> I have no statistics to prove my contention but it has been my personal
> experience that many  of my former students,  on the school honor rolls
> with exceptionally high grades in High School Biology, have had a great
> deal of trouble achieving equally high grades in our high school physics
> courses.   I assumed that courses such as the high school Biology require
> a great deal of memorization of seemingly unrelated topics together with
> test and examinations that mostly test the ability of recall.
> Perhaps I am the only one on this list-serv with such experiences.... but
> I wonder if anyone else here has had similar experiences.


Jim Green
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