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Impossible you say? Not if you understand what the brain needs to easily understand complex matter like science.
Based on how the brain learns best, Bookmap Ltd. has developed a special technique to generate accurate and very detailed specifications for publishing educational material for science education at high school and college level. The resulting specifications show in detail:
what information the educational material needs to contain to enable understanding rather than memorization
how this information should be ordered for fast and easy learning
which meaningful patterns of information should be indicated to the student to obtain transfer
Is there evidence that these specifications will result in better science education? Yes. The Ministry of Education in the Netherlands* performed a field experiment for biology in which students and teachers got these detailed specifications to combine with their existing textbook. Compared to the control group the students performed 12% better and needed over 30% less study time. It also helped the teachers: 80% said it made more clear what and how to teach.
Let us teach your experts how to generate these detailed specification and within a few years the US' science education will meet the needs of the competitive knowledge economy, for the cost of about ten cents per inhabitant, including the cost of your experts.
* In 2006 the World Economic Forum ranked the science education in the Netherlands in the 15th position whereas the US was ranked 42nd.
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