Essay Abstract

By reviewing the findings of 43 years of research into educational assessment practices, the authors show that learning is both digital (accumulative) and analog (transformational). They challenge current scoring practices of treating it solely as digital and present a procedure that captures both aspects of learning. If one aspect of reality is both analog as digital, as Heisenberg suggests, all reality must be both as well.

Author Bio

J. C. Powell: Born in 1931, he completer his Ph.D. in 1970, focusing upon the interpretation of alternative answers on tests. Along with the late Dr. N. Shklov he developed in the 1980s a statistical procedure that bypasses linear dependency. Since then he has applied this procedure to several data sets and shown the invalidity of current test-scoring practices. J. Bernauer Id a collegue of hie wife at Robert Morris University who became interested in this work. Vishnu Agnihotri is a contact made through IMPS1009 in Cambridge, UK.

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22 days later

Dear Jay

I assume no-ones posted and you're languishing because it's not seen as a physics essay. I wholly disagree. In fact the essay subject doesn't mention physics anyway!

But what is more it works on many levels. The misunderstanding of the solar system is about poor teaching of nature and conceptualisation. I think it goes way beyond the examples you give. It certainly gets a good score from me.

You may find this interesting. I explained to some 12 year olds how light takes a certain time to traverse a block of ice on the floor, because it does a certain speed in ice. (as n = say 1.3). I than asked how long it would take if the ice was sliding towards the light source. The away from it, then if the light source was sliding towards and away from the block, then if they themselves were sliding up and down. After a little thought they all got it correct. They then also understood that to validly measure it they had to be moving with the block.

I've found that if we ask 30 physics teachers and professors, over 90% would get it wrong. It's not understood that the problem between Relativity and QM is rooted in that fact.

I do hope you'll read my essay, understand the concept (plasma is a refractor as is ice), and remember to give it a community score. I hope yours also gets noticed in the right places. I know the problem!

Best wishes

Peter Jackson

22 days later

Dear Jay,

I'm still reading essays even though the deadline is past. What an interesting idea that more information can be extracted from the digital data that gives an idea of more complex things behind it. It does seem to make a good case that digital observations in physics are likely to have more complexity behind them than is readily apparent. I think it comes down to how we define a smallest reality device and then what explains that device. My essay touches on this. It seems hopeful we can find a common denominator to existing theories, but beyond that we may be near the limit of what can be known.

I think your observations are great and your essay should have scored higher.

Kind regards, Russell Jurgensen

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