{"by":"mquander","id":1021658,"kids":[1022269],"parent":1021422,"text":"Strongly reminiscent of this really fantastic talk from Eric Mazur, a Harvard physics professor (and a charismatic speaker!) who was shocked when he discovered the pervasive misconceptions held by his undergraduate students.<p><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI</a><p>Mazur describes how he discovered and <i>carefully measured</i> the lack of fundamental understanding among the majority of his students, and how after attempting to address the problem in various ways, he found that a discussion-based, peer-assisted method of working through material was much more effective than more a lecture-oriented approach.","time":1262133615,"type":"comment"}