Six Education.

The author discusses a shift in the focus of educators from measuring what students know to what they can do. Topics include the ability of students to use provided resources to solve problems, the tendency for students to learn better if the use knowledge to do things versus simply memorizing, and...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 10; pp. 7 - 8
Autor principal: Cerf, Vinton G.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2017
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Sumario:The author discusses a shift in the focus of educators from measuring what students know to what they can do. Topics include the ability of students to use provided resources to solve problems, the tendency for students to learn better if the use knowledge to do things versus simply memorizing, and the Common Core State education standards' focus on the reasons why different methods result in the same mathematical result.