Memorization or understanding: Are we teaching the right thing?

Eric Mazur

doi:10.1364/ETOP.2003.EWB2

Education and Training in Optics and Photonics
OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2003),
paper EWB2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/ETOP.2003.EWB2

Memorization or understanding: Are we teaching the right thing?

Eric Mazur

Education and Training in Optics and Photonics 2003

Tucson, Arizona United States
ISBN: 1-55752-759-8

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Abstract

By shifting the focus in lectures from delivering information to helping students synthesize information remarkable improvements in understanding can be achieved. The method to accomplish this improvement, Peer Instruction, is easily adapted and implemented.

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