DD is right to suggest that there are some students who will probably not pass (or, better, will "not perform to the norm"), but the suggestion to read the book "The Bell Curve" is a bit troublesome. That book is a truly political piece of writing designed to suggest that public education is a failure; it employs falacious logic and manipulates statistics with an anti public school agenda.
Also, in spite of our awareness that perhaps not all our students will achieve as we wish they would, our goal as teachers, it seems to me, is to strive for 100% success, anyway. Go for the gold!
Paul E. Doniger
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From: DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 2:05:35 PM
Subject: Re: ATEG Digest - 13 Sep 2007 to 14 Sep 2007 (#2007-110)
At 08:37 AM 9/17/2007, Ronald Sheen wrote:. . .
>1. Variable IQ results in variable success on the part of students.
>2. This means that as some students are not successful, the
>teacher must finally resort to direct explanation to make sure that
>everyone understands thus partially defeating the purpose of the
>original exercise.
DD: Why? Is the requirement that all pass? Come on now, some students
can not perform to the norm. Read, "The Bell Curve."
>3. There is ample research to demonstrate that students on the
>whole prefer the deductive approach. (refs on request)
DD: But do they learn better that way?
>4. The weaker students end up being passive as they know that
>sooner or later the brighter students (or the teacher) will provide
>the answer. Further, in my experience and based on a study done by
>one of my students, the brighter students resent being put with less
>bright students because they end up doing all the solving in group work . . .
DD: As one who has been there, Yes, I did resent doing the work for
the dummies, unless they were nubile chicks. {My genius elder sister
said much the same, but substitute, "Hunks."}
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