Is It Possible For Students Who Can Solve Traditional Problems To Lack Conceptual Understanding ?

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Is It Possible For Students Who Can Solve Traditional Problems To Lack Conceptual Understanding? ” [Hake (2012)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Math-Teach’s Robert Hansen, in his post “An Interesting Study” http://bit.ly/xRJ4Nw wrote (paraphrasing): “Thomas Judson’s study ‘High School Calculus in the United States and in Japan’ http://bit.ly/z13oSx shows what I’ve been asserting all along – Hake’s hypothesis that good students who can solve problems lack conceptual understanding is BS.”

That “good students who can solve problems lack conceptual understanding” is NOT the “Hake hypothesis” and is NOT “BS,” unless “BS” means something like “Basic Sense.” See, for example Kim & Pak’s “Students do not overcome conceptual difficulties after solving 1000 traditional problems” http://bit.ly/ApWSju.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 06 March 2012.]
Hake, R.R. 2012. “Is It Possible For Students Who Can Solve Traditional Problems To Lack Conceptual Understanding?” on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/xE2vbg. Post of 5 Mar 2012 19:42:03-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.