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From: Forum for Physics Educators
[mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of David T. Marx
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:20 PM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: Re: What students will do. (was: Physics Solutions Manual)
I do reading quizzes using clickers at the beginning of each
class. I find that students now read the book, where they
barely looked at it before reading quizzes. When surveyed,
87% indicated that the reading quizzes made them read the
book much more than they would have otherwise.
The problem I ran into last semester was that students could
not comprehend what they were reading - even after, in some
cases, reading it five or six times and taking pages of
notes. When I looked at the pages of notes, I found a series
of statements with no connection begin made between them or
any attempt to summarize what had been read.
Regards,
David Marx
Illinois State University