I'll not tell you whether I did better or worse than the average blind monkey on Will Thalheimer's quiz on learning research, (which I found via Donald Clark's link to Thalheimer's excellent People remember 10%, 20%... Oh Really?), but I learnt quite a lot from doing the quiz, despite its slightly frustrating questions, and then reviewing the discussion about the quiz on Thalheimer's blog.
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I think the quiz is misleading as the questions are often unfathomable. However, he does expose the simple truth that many education and training professionals don't know much about the basic science in their profession.
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Agree with you on that, Donald. And several of the quiz questions have (wrong) answers that are only a bit less right than the correct answers. In addition, when doing the quiz you quickly find yourself adjusting your answers to the what you intuit are the views of the quiz-writer. Seb - 28/5/2007.
Posted by: Donald Clark | 28/05/2007 at 21:24