"Instead of showing our students a better lecture, let's get them doing something better than lecture," Frank Noschese, a high school physics teacher in Cross River, N.Y., wrote on his blog in June.
Choices like lecture in main programme better, exhibition in main programme better, lecture in sectional programme better, specific topic in main programme symposium better and specific topic in main programme lecture better were independent of all the covariates.
These variables were introduced as covariates in the logistic regression model and the choices of the study participants (e.g. section programme better, lecture, better, specific topic better etc).
You learn better in lectures by watching the lectures rather than listening to them.
"We know what works," he says, citing "the mounting evidence" that interactive learning practices are better than lectures.
With such enhancements, computer based teaching may perform even better than lectures, a hypothesis that will no doubt be subject of future research.
Moreover, while they responded that POPS facilitated student learning better than lectures, teachers pointed out that limited teaching resources would make it difficult for wide POPS application in China.
And on the credibility front, who better to lecture us on such matters than a man who has been predicting an inflationary explosion for five years?
If governments are worried about low birthrates, as many are, they could do a lot better than lecture uppity women one day and offer paltry child bonuses the next.
