And this inquisitive pedagogy is in no way new to educational theory. As early as the turn of the century, John Dewey strongly advocated organizing education in all areas around activities and lessons that lend themselves to reflective inquiry. Certainly the relative ease and speed with which thousands of computer-scored multiple choice questions can be tabulated is part of the answer to the first question. Professor Layman implies that the speed at which change will occur will correlate directly to the intensity of activism of people like Mark Stefanski and a woman he has worked with in the past, Peggy Skinner of the independent Bush School in Seattle. Layman cites work like Skinner's as the main reason biology is so far ahead of the curve.
Skinner seems cautiously optimistic.
The multiple choice questions are a little harder to make conceptual, but even those are changing. Some of her comments make it clear that it's not only high schools that we have to change.