Author: Annick Wibben (Politics, Arts & Sciences)
The traditional lecture-based physics course produces little or no change in most students' fundamental understanding of how the physical world works.
"The classes only seem to be really working for about 10 percent of the students," Arizona State's Hestenes says. "And I maintain, I think all the evidence indicates, that these 10 percent are the students that would learn it even without the instructor. They essentially learn it on their own."
Read more at: Physicists Seek to Lose the Lecture as Teaching Tool
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