Re: [Phys-l] Student engagement

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>]

Go to Eric Mazur's web page at Harvard, or look at Dick Hake' data set.

joe

Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

On Dec 4, 2009, at 2:39 AM, scitch@verizon.net wrote:

> In a conversation at work recently, I came to realize that everyone  
> defines "student engagement" differently.  I was in a group where  
> "engagement" meant "students are busy."  What they are busy doing  
> was unimportant.  When I explained that it means something totally  
> different in science, they had never heard of such a thing.  Then  
> when I said that there are mountains of PER showing that the type  
> of engagement that we scientists are speaking of is far more  
> effective than lecture (no matter how "engaging" the lecturer  
> thinks his/her lectures are) the conversation really got heated.
>
> So, we ended up in a debate about the effectiveness of lecture.  I  
> have heard anecdotes on this list several times about experiments  
> involving asking students simple questions after a lecture and they  
> were not able to even tell what the lecture was about.  I could not  
> find references to any such experiment online.  Have these results  
> been described somewhat scientifically anywhere?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
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