Revealing results from education research.

1. Instructors in science courses usually poor at knowing what students are (and are not) learning.

2. Very little information transfer in traditional lecture course.

3. Thinking is not a spectator sport. Need to do it to

learn how.

4. If memorization of content and problem-solving recipes

will do well on exam, that is what students will learn.

5. People do not learn something if they see no reason for

learning it. Telling them why later is too late.

6. Most physics courses move students away from expert toward novice attitudes and problem solving!

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