You may wish to contact a Council member to voice your opinion. Bridging Research and Practice. An extensive research literature now documents that an ordinary degree of understanding is routinely missing in many, perhaps most, students. Students complete courses with high grades but cannot remember what was taught or apply it to other situations. According to the authors, research shows the following.
Students come to the classroom with preconceptions about how the world works.
If their initial understanding is not engaged, they may fail to grasp new concepts and information that are taught, or they may learn them for purposes of a test but revert to their preconceptions outside the classroom. Students will replace erroneous preconceptions when they engage in activities that require active use of new knowledge. Without active engagement, memorization or repeating facts for examinations has limited effect.