Re: Thinking Level of students

[Wes Davis <wlrdavis@EARTHLINK.NET>]

John Clement writes:

> Basically I see evidence for about 15% of the seniors in our
> school (a private school) being in the formal category, and 30% being
> concrete.  By the end of my course I see the number of concrete thinkers
> halved, and the number of formal thinkers doubled.  There is some evidence
> that shows that students who do not take physics, but do take the same math
> sequence show no rise.


    I'm not sure how to interpret this.  Does this mean that even at a
(presumably) elite private school only 30% of those who have taken physics
are formal thinkers at graduation?  And of those who haven't taken physics,
only 15% are formal thinkers at graduation??

   That doesn't seem to differ a whole lot from our observations, but maybe
I'm misreading what you're saying?

    Wes