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Re: Evidence (was Climate Change and Engineered Systems)
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Beryl Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
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And as they get older, they are taught to the (high stakes) test, which means rote response.
Beryl

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On Oct 13, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Jennie Dusheck <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> I think you are right. A researcher in the article blames curriculum that is too abstract. My gut feeling is that at best that's a partial explanation. I suspect that we are inadvertently teaching children not to try to figure things out themselves. I'm thinking there's an element of learned helplessness if anyone (child or adult) suspects that science is involved. But without evidence, that's all wild conjecture.
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> Jennie Dusheck
> Freelance Science Writing
> Science Curriculum Development
> Santa Cruz, Ca 95060
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>> My gut reaction to that is that school age children have been helped too much, given too many answers, and so have learned other, quite different techniques for getting answers.
>> 
>> Anne Hance
>> Explorit Science Center,
>> Davis, California
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>> On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Jennie Dusheck <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Just tangentially, Scientific American has a piece this month that suggests that very young children use controlled experiments to learn about how things work. Given their natural propensity for doing simple, controlled experiments, the question was why school age children seem to lose the knack to evaluate such evidence.
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>>>> Has anyone seen or know of any evaluation on programs like CSI? As you know
>>>> there is an emphasis on presenting the evidence for science in our
>>>> exhibitions and programs to over come misconceptions about science.
>>>> 
>>>> I am interested in knowing if the emphasis on evidence, as evidence for
>>>> science, in these enormously popular television programs is having any
>>>> effect on the public in increasing their appreciation for the role and
>>>> importance of evidence in general. I would not be surprised if they do in
>>>> terms of forensics but can viewers generalize?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks and i will share any off-line responses.
>>>> 
>>>> Martin
>>>> --
>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>> Martin Weiss, PhD
>>>> Senior Scientist
>>>> New York Hall of Science
>>>> mweiss at nyscience.org
>>>> cell   347-460-1858
>>>> desk 718 595 9156
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