B. Regarding the comment by Joe below and an earlier one by John Denker
"4) Sometimes I find it helpful to work backwards from the final exam.
Think of a couple of beautiful problems that you would like to put on the
final, and then ask yourself what you have to teach so that the kids will be
able to handle those problems."
Larry Woolf
General Atomics
www.sci-ed-ga.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Forum for Physics Educators On Behalf Of Joseph Bellina
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Goals of the Introductory Course
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but it seems to me that it is
important to establish how you will know these goals are met. Since if you
can't tell, its not a very useful goal.What data will establish with
reasonable certainty that your students have achieved the list below? Some
may be easy to assess, others may be much more difficult.
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