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Tell and Repeat courses

Physical Sciences rallain | May 27, 2010

Even though I have taught courses like this before (in a sense, my last physical science course was like this), I really don't like these courses. I will classify a "tell and repeat" course as one where the instructor tells the students stuff and then the students repeat this on the test. Look around, it happens a lot. But really, what is the point? Here are some example questions from a tell and repeat course (most of these I have used in a course - when you point a finger, 4 are pointing back at yourself): What is the difference between a meteorite, a meteor, and a meteoroid? Which has…