Saturday, October 31, 2009

Teaching: Understanding Physics

Love this quote about the abilities of college students in introductory physics courses:

“while nearly 80% of the students could state Newton’s Third Law at the beginning of the course … [Force Concept Inventory] data showed that less than 15% of them fully understood it at the end”

(David Hestenes, 1998. Am. J. Phys. 66:465).

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