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- From: tchoi@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
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- Subject: Re: education system
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.015454.11941@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:54:54 GMT
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- >The test can be made to evaluate
- >the creativeness or rote memory or whatever the writer of test
- >desires.
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- Many people seem to believe that Asian students just memorize everything
- unlike American students who are very creative and understand something.
- But is that so?
- I read an article (I guess it was in 'Scientific America, but I'm not
- quite sure. If you really want to know, I may be able to find it again)
- which argue against above mythical conception.
- Very complex and complicated problems were given to students in two regions
- (Asia and America) and tried to find out HOW they solve those
- complex problems.
- The highest intellectual way of solving those problems is, they said,
- to disintegrate the complex problems into small handlable units and
- reintegrate them (brain's associative function , which is
- a mother of creativity).
- Suprisingly (?), twice more Asian students solve those complex problems
- that way (Of course, Asian students solved more). From this study,
- authors concluded that Asian students use the higer cognitive function
- (associative method) better to solve the problem.
- So I think that accusing Asian education system as rote memorization
- is BASELESS.
-
- Giltsu Choi.
-