Subject: Fall 2010 In Review (getting back to the original question)

Posted by Pedro D. Almaguer Prado on 12/25/2010
In Reply To:Fall 2010 In Review (getting back to the original question) Posted by Gene Bellinger on 12/25/2010

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Gene:

The work developed by The Waters Foundation Project I know, the link you post on the previous topic has error, Kubanek work I will study, I had not seen before, not if know if they have published their results of their meta -analysis for the validation and reliability.

I know in depth the literature on skills testing systems thinkers in the society of dynamic systems and are published each year.

I think there is a fabulous which was published in 2000 by Sterman and Linda Booth Sweeney for students from around the world of MIT and the conclusions they arrive for training students, masters and doctorate, do you think of what's happening basic education for understanding and comprehension of what is a derivative and integral, basic issues in order to visualize the behavior in time of variables and changes in level in the Stocks, basic things to learn to make decisions that levers move and visualize the impact of our decisions in the system before new policies are implemented and the real.

To me it seems that when the president of MIT saw these results, perhaps that greatly influenced him to open the curriculum at his university to the world, and now you can see for free .

From this year we have been applying the same test Sterman and variants in other universities in the world, in countries like Germany, Italy, Norway, some in Asia, and have replicated their results with many similarities to the findings of Sterman and Linda . Believe me, there is little point you're a college graduate too hard if your students do not understand what a derivative and integral, so that it serves in the background with a practical sense.

For the K12 is also fantastic experiences applied by Diana M. Fisher test was used where Sterman of the Bathtub and mentioned that when students received basic training in SD, come better prepared than students in professional, I have all this history of the original evidence and some variants in recent years in my personal library, there is an evolution of the original proof of Sterman who presented in 2008 or 2010 and some studies of other authors who can not remember now, but they are very interesting because they show comparisons of results when applying various teaching methods SD.

I share the original document Sterman and Sweeney published in 2000 by the "System Dynamics Society, suggest you study to reflect on what is happening.

If you like to sack all that I have studied in this field and we see it or if anyone else is interested write me.

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