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At 12:24 AM -0600 1/30/02, Jack Uretsky wrote:
Hi all-
There is a glaring difference between the educational research
and the physics research the I have seen. The educational exeriments seem
At 10:11 AM -0500 1/30/02, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
I believe that it was Confucius who once said that
"All education experiments are doomed to success".
Well, my dissertation was about writing across the curriculum--specifically
writing in physics classes _to help students learn physics_. The
educational theories all said it should work (i.e. writing about physics
should help students learn physics). My dissertation committee, made up
mostly of education professors, was not at all happy about the negative
results I obtained (the negative results were even contrary to my own
personal expectations).
Yes, there are too many variables to control for in educational research
and there are plenty of possible explanations for my negative results; but
tional experiment).
Larry