I was in grade school during the 1970's. I remember being given the direct learning for English grammar in the 5th grade. The intent was that all grammar topics from sentance structure to punctuation, verbs nouns, etc... were broken down into indevidual "laerning modules". The teacher gave a brief lesson then the student were allowed to take the module and do the learning assignments. The intent was that student would progress at their own pace. I can tell you that at the age of 10 I couldn't care lass about learning grammer. I was allowed to simply not move on. There… >>>

I have witnessed the same thing in our labs where they work in groups. Most of our students believe it's enough to hand in a sheet with stuff written on it even though they have no idea what it means or how to get the answers them selves. Also, We have tried a small verion of this with something called Self Studey. They are assigned chapters and questions are asked about that material during quizes. I would say it's a fair estimate if 1 in 100 actually do the reading.

This stuff sounds great on paper but I have not… >>>