ABSTRACT: PhysLrnR’s Bill Goffe, in his post “Re: PER Mentioned in Article About Obama Higher Ed Proposal” pointed to the Chronicle of Higher Education article “4 Key Ideas in Obama's Plan to Control College Costs Bear Familiar Fingerprints” [Berrett et al. (2013)] at http://bit.ly/18dhj1F. Therein Carl Wieman, Eric Mazur, and Richard Hake are mentioned. In my opinion:
1. Berrett et al.’s claims that (a) Wieman and Mazur, are proponents of the “flipped classroom,” and (b) some of the earliest and most-cited research on the flipped classroom was conducted by R.R. Hake (1998a) - see “Interactive-engagement vs traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses” at http://bit.ly/9484DG; rely on an overly broad interpretation of the “flipped classroom” to mean “students participate actively during class instead of listening passively.”
2. Both claims "a" and "b" above are misleading to those who entertain the usual meaning of “flipped classroom,” succinctly set forth by Andrea Zellner (2012) in “Flipping out? What you need to know about the Flipped Classroom” at http://bit.ly/14vMuHP. She wrote (my italics): “The flipped classroom flips this [traditional passive-student lecture model] on its head: through lecture capture software, lectures can be captured on video for students to watch at home, freeing up class time for hands-on learning activities and discussion.”
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“People have nowadays . . . got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. Lectures were once useful; but now, when we can all read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.”
- Samuel Johnson according to James Boswell (1791) [Samuel Johnson doubtless rolls in his grave at the thought that in the 21st Century videos are evidently replacing reading.]
REFERENCES [URLs shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 27 August 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013. “Physics Education Research Mentioned in Article About Obama Higher Ed Proposals” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/150Y0rk. Post of 27 Aug 2013 18:40:06-0400 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being distributed to various discussion lists.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Flipping the Classroom vs Traditional Lecture
Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Flipping the Classroom vs Traditional Lecture” [Hake (2012)]. The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: Dan Berrett (2012a) in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education reported on “How ‘Flipping’the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture.”According to Berrett “Flipping describes the inversion of expectations in the traditional college lecture. It takes many forms, including ‘interactive engagement,’ ‘just-in-time teaching,’ and ‘peer instruction’,” all originating in physics education.
However, the chief criticism of Melissa Franklin, chair of Harvard’s physics department, is based on the intensity of students’ responses - the average score on a student evaluation of a flipped course is about half what the same professor gets when using the traditional lecture, she says “When the students are feeling really bad about required courses, it doesn't seem like a good thing.”
Quoting Berrett: “Liking the class is ultimately beside the point, Mr. Mazur says. He says his results from using Peer Instruction show that, on the Force Concept Inventory, non-majors who take his class outperform physics majors who learn in traditional lectures. ‘You want students to like class, but that's not the goal of education,’ Mr. Mazur says. ‘I could give them foot massages and they'd like it.’ ”
In this post I give a highly condensed version of Berrett’s report, into which I have inserted some hot-linked academic references.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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“I point to the following unwelcome truth: much as we might dislike the implications, research is showing that didactic exposition of abstract ideas and lines of reasoning (however engaging and lucid we might try to make them) to passive listeners yields pathetically thin results in learning and understanding - except in the very small percentage of students who are specially gifted in the field.”
Arnold Arons in Teaching Introductory Physics (p. vii, 1997)
REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 25 Feb 2012.]
Arons, A.B. 1997. Teaching Introductory Physics. Wiley. Amazon.com information at http://amzn.to/bBPfop. Note the searchable “Look Inside” feature.
Hake, R.R. 2012. “Flipping the Classroom vs Traditional Lecture,” online at http://bit.ly/wYdWIl. Post of 24 Feb 2012 19:51:14-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
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ABSTRACT: Dan Berrett (2012a) in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education reported on “How ‘Flipping’the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture.”According to Berrett “Flipping describes the inversion of expectations in the traditional college lecture. It takes many forms, including ‘interactive engagement,’ ‘just-in-time teaching,’ and ‘peer instruction’,” all originating in physics education.
However, the chief criticism of Melissa Franklin, chair of Harvard’s physics department, is based on the intensity of students’ responses - the average score on a student evaluation of a flipped course is about half what the same professor gets when using the traditional lecture, she says “When the students are feeling really bad about required courses, it doesn't seem like a good thing.”
Quoting Berrett: “Liking the class is ultimately beside the point, Mr. Mazur says. He says his results from using Peer Instruction show that, on the Force Concept Inventory, non-majors who take his class outperform physics majors who learn in traditional lectures. ‘You want students to like class, but that's not the goal of education,’ Mr. Mazur says. ‘I could give them foot massages and they'd like it.’ ”
In this post I give a highly condensed version of Berrett’s report, into which I have inserted some hot-linked academic references.
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To access the complete 29 kB post please click on http://bit.ly/wYdWIl.
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References
which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
rrhake@earthlink.net
Links to Articles: http://bit.ly/a6M5y0
Links to SDI Labs: http://bit.ly/9nGd3M
Blog: http://bit.ly/9yGsXh
Academia: http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/rrhake
“I point to the following unwelcome truth: much as we might dislike the implications, research is showing that didactic exposition of abstract ideas and lines of reasoning (however engaging and lucid we might try to make them) to passive listeners yields pathetically thin results in learning and understanding - except in the very small percentage of students who are specially gifted in the field.”
Arnold Arons in Teaching Introductory Physics (p. vii, 1997)
REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 25 Feb 2012.]
Arons, A.B. 1997. Teaching Introductory Physics. Wiley. Amazon.com information at http://amzn.to/bBPfop. Note the searchable “Look Inside” feature.
Hake, R.R. 2012. “Flipping the Classroom vs Traditional Lecture,” online at http://bit.ly/wYdWIl. Post of 24 Feb 2012 19:51:14-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
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