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Peer reviewedCavicchi, Elizabeth; Lucht, Petra; Hughes-McDonnell, Fiona – Educational Action Research, 2000
Challenges the belief that high stakes tests are the keystone of students' educational attainment, describing a series of exploratory workshops, developed in reaction to this issue, in which teachers (as essential preparation for developing students' curiosity) deepened their understanding of the principles of physics by playing with light. Such…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Educational Research
