Science Education
A recent edition of Science has a significant Policy Forum paper on Science
Education. It contains the provocative statement: "Many scientists are still
unaware of the data and analyses that demonstrate the effectiveness of
active learning techniques. Others may distrust the data because they see
scientists who have flourished in the current educational system. Still
others feel intimidated by the challenge of learning new teaching methods or
may fear that identification as teachers will reduce their credibility as
researchers." Readers can judge the argument for themselves by going to the
following URL. Handelsman, J., D. Ebert-May, R. Beichner, P. Bruns, A.
Chang, R. DeHaan, J. Gentile, S. Lauffer, J. Stewart, S.M. Tilghman, W.B.
Wood. 2004. "Scientific Teaching," Science 304 (23): 521-522. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol304/issue5670/index.shtml#policyforum
For those who do not have a copy of Science, or do not wish to look it up,
or do not have access to their web info here is a similar free article by
one of the authors http://www.hhmi.org/news/042304.html