[IAEP] [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

I'm sorry, but is not clear to me what is the argument.I just indicated what the  study actual says.The validity of any study, if done correctly, is for the sample used and the parameters tested. Is not a universal truth. If you have in mind a specific study that points to the fact that cognition (not specifically learning something, exploring, etc) between home- and institution-growing kids may be different (which this study certainly does not exclude), please point to it.

--- On Thu, 1/20/11, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery
To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Caryl Bigenho" <cbigenho at hotmail.com>, "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>, "IAEP SugarLabs" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, support-gang at laptop.org
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:08 AM


 


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrothal at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The study involved 
> "149 (American) preschoolers (mean age: 60 months, range:


> 48–72 months) (that) were recruited in a metropolitan
> Science Museum. Most children were white and middleclass,
> but a range of ethnicities resembling the diversity of
> the population was represented".



This does not describe a meaningful population for such a study. There are huge differences, for example, between "home-grown kids" and "institution-grown kids" that can both come from middle-class families.



Cheers,
Maria Droujkova

Make math your own, to make your own math.





      
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