{"id":133,"date":"2008-03-23T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/133"},"modified":"2008-03-23T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T19:24:22","slug":"flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/133","title":{"rendered":"Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m no good at taking tests<\/a> and the post “understanding”<\/a> referenced within, over at the Blog of Doom.<\/p>\n

I may not be able to see into their minds, but the problem I see is this: rather than learning the concepts and forming a mental model of how something works, students are learning (and are being taught) how to do certain<\/em> problems. If a problem is outside the scope of what they\u2019ve been taught, it\u2019s considered impossible \u2014 even when it actually could be solved with their current knowledge. When a teacher tries to make students think outside the box, she\u2019s accused of testing students on \u201cstuff she never taught us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The flashback is to excuses I used to hear, of which “I’m no good at test-taking” was a favorite. We interviewed all students who failed exams, so there was a fair amount of opportunity to hear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m no good at taking tests and the post “understanding” referenced within, over at the Blog of Doom. I may not be able to see into their minds, but the problem I see is this: rather than learning the concepts … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}