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What Makes Science Hard? A Karplus Lecture.
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Tobias, Sheila – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1993
Many students are deterred from science because of the way science courses are packaged. To find out what makes science hard for intelligent students, the author employed nonscience faculty and graduate students as surrogate students in science. Their responses to the sequence of the units, demonstrations, homework assignments, examinations, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Science, Demonstrations (Educational), Higher Education