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%SEQUENCING OF QUESTIONS 790921
A student can get all tied up in knots by trying to
deal with a number of related questions at the same time.
This is especially true if the questions are hypothetical
and are based upon mutually inconsistent assumptions. The
student must get clearly in mind one set of assumptions
and answer the question which is based upon that one set
of assumptions before moving on to consider the next set
of assumptions (which may be inconsistent with the first
set of assumptions) and the question which is based upon
the second set of assumptions. There must be clarity as
to which set of assumptions go with which question, and
clarity that there are different assumptions upon which
the different questions are based. To mix up questions is
to mix up incongruous assumptions. The questions must be
taken up one at a time, and there may be misleading order
in which they can be taken up. Thus, not only must they
be considered one at a time, there may be an order in
which to consider them which is the only fruitful order in
which to consider them.
In solving some problems, such as problems of motion
in physics, questions may differ with regard to what
information is given and what is to be inferred. In one
problem the student may be given a distance, initial
velocity, and time; and be asked to infer the
acceleration. In another problem the student may be given
the acceleration, initial velocity, and time; and be asked
to infer the distance. If a student tries to think about
both problems simultaneously there will be confusion
generated by the differing roles played by distance and
acceleration in the two problems; their roles are reversed
in the two problems. The student needs to be aware of the
different structures of the two problems.
Other difficulties arise if two problems of differing
modality are tackled simultaneously. There will be a
tendency to treat both problems within the same mode of
approach. Thus it is especially difficult to deal with a
single problem which has two inseparable aspects, one of
which is affectional and the other of which is technical.
Only people with personal integrity and balance can
helpfully deal with such holistic problems.
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