Re: little gee and its sign

["Dewey Dykstra, Jr." <dykstrad@EMAIL.BOISESTATE.EDU>]

> In his post, JSD has hit on something that has been bothering me
> about this conversation.  In my experiences, many students do not show an
> ability to distinguish between superficial understanding and, how do I say
> it, a "more complete" understanding.  In other words, their ability to
> self-reflect and self-evaluate is weak.
>
> I wonder if this may be the problem here instead of some "inability" to do
> scaling or whatever.
>
> Perhaps someone on the list can provide information to confirm or deny my
> suspicions?
>
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> | Robert Cohen               Department of Physics       |
> |                            East Stroudsburg University |
> | rcohen@po-box.esu.edu      East Stroudsburg, PA  18301 |
> | http://www.esu.edu/~bbq/   (570) 422-3428              |
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Robert:
Why would a student's ability or inclination to think deeply,
self-reflect, and self-evaluate be very strong when NOTHING about
their educational experience ever invites or encourages such activity?

I go along with MDE and I suspect you in believing that while Tina's
data does not PROVE her explanation, it does support her explanation.
Her explanation is one that while not the only one as JU and JSD
point out, it is one that fits the data and furthermore goes along
with your observation above.

Dewey

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