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The imparting of scientific facts is a core requirement of most modern education curricula. Recent comparative studies on the methods and results of teaching methods have suggested that science facts are transmitted somewhat less straightforwardly than has previously been thought, and that their mastery is not necessarily as connected to genuine proficiency in scientific thinking as has been the normative assumption for education policies. Educators and students who share an interest in the improvement of education practices may draw on the suggestions of this program to reorder the methods by which they go about, respectively, teaching and learning scientific facts. The study on the effect of learning scientific facts looked at sample groups of students selected from two populations, from the United States and China. All of the students were alike in their stage of education, being freshmen or first-year students enrolled in entry-level physics class. An important distinction between the two test groups appeared in the levels of knowledge and experience in science facts they brought to the study. The Chinese students had all passed through a curriculum that demands and emphasizes education in scientific facts through primary school. By contrast, the American students had a far less consistently … Continue reading